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decontextualizes

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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decontextualize.

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Examples

  • These days I find I have little tolerance for writing/discussion that completely decontextualizes Thanksgiving from historical events or contemporary meaning.

    Thanksgiving's Many and Complicated Needs 2009

  • As is indicated in the final exchange in pane 6, Deutsch clearly understands that Whites 'insistence on personalization is foolish because it decontextualizes the issue.

    Teaching Tool: The Advantages and Limitations of a Race-Themed Political Cartoon 2009

  • For all the unscrupulous and shady businessmen and governments of the world, Haiti has always been a fiscal paradise because the Neocolonialists 'manufactures fear, racists myths and false stereotypes about Haitian brutality, inherent poverty, lack of natural resources, incompetence (the common neocolonial storyline/media lies), inherent violence, decontextualizes Haiti's legacy of impunity/corruption and lies about Haiti not having a viable indigenous culture.

    The Slavery in Haiti the Media Won't Expose 2009

  • This ten-year story truncates, decontextualizes, and tames the movement while rendering it legalistic, episodic, triumphant and nostalgic.

    Archive 2008-05-01 Mary L. Dudziak 2008

  • Whether the result of that specific instance would have been “worth it” completely decontextualizes the issue.

    Torture Hypothetical « Lean Left 2007

  • Using TiVo as a reason to watch more TV because you save the time from missing commercials or reducing whole musical units albums, symphonies, etc to their component parts which decontextualizes the music.

    Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » An iPod and Tivo critique 2005

  • By emphasizing those phenomena rather than Jewish ethnonationalism, West decontextualizes the Israel-Palestine conflict from its proper origin in Zionist colonization.

    unknown title 2009

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