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What is the verb for context?

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context
  1. (obsolete) To knit or bind together; to unite closely.
contextualize
  1. To place something or someone in a particular context.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “This will provide an overall context for each national case study and will help contextualize the use of Internet technology by environmental groups.”
      “It is also important to contextualize how many cases of autism could be accounted for if a causal link to SSRI proved true.”
      “Even as the authors provide captions conveying artists' descriptions of the works, they fail to adequately contextualize these captions.”
contextualise
  1. Alternative spelling of contextualize
  2. Examples:
    1. “Her study examines America's history of legislative dysfunction in order to contextualise the contemporary stalemate.”
      “So a possible solution to this problem may be to contextualise science teaching in a way that links it more firmly with the world of the learner.”
      “In other words, you can contextualise all you like, but a racial slur is a racial slur.”
contex
  1. (obsolete, transitive) To context.
contextualises
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contextualise
contextualizes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contextualize
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The book contextualizes the slave trade and makes clear that the U.S. was not the only place where Africans were enslaved in the New World.”
      “He contextualizes the work in a well-documented essay that precedes 128 pages of photographs.”
      “It contextualizes illicit small arms trade within the broader concepts of conflict, armed violence and firearms control.”
contextualised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of contextualise
  2. Examples:
    1. “The subject is contextualised into a social realism that includes narrativity as a totality.”
      “Nonetheless, the basis is established for a sustained and contextualised study of agency, activists, organisation, process, strategy and tactics.”
      “The development of contextualised materials and tools has been supported at various points by ESF investment alongside domestic funding.”
contextualized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of contextualize
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Ms. Shelley Chrest: Again, I contextualized my whole discussion within a legal aid context, and focused on legal aid.”
      “It would enable an assessment of voting issues to be fact-based and contextualized.”
      “The way in which he carried out his crime, and the way his thoughts contextualized it, resembles role-playing, rather than political terrorism.”
contexted
  1. simple past tense and past participle of context
  2. Examples:
    1. “The whole world's frame, which is contexted only by commerce and contracts.”
contextualizing
  1. present participle of contextualize
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “She narrativizes violence by contextualizing local acts as part of the common enterprise of decolonization world wide.”
      “And artists find ways of contextualizing their work in the models of science and history of religion.”
      “Such commentary and glosses have profound applications for contextualizing the archival documents presented in this series.”
contextualising
  1. present participle of contextualise
  2. Examples:
    1. “The biographer's contextualising presence allows us to catch even the most recondite allusion.”
      “Though the gender gap in this sector has been reduced to some extent, contextualising the pedagogical system was of utmost importance.”
      “It was not the linage alone, but the contextualising of the image within a song or story that gave an image its meaning.”
contexed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of contex
contexting
  1. present participle of context
  2. Examples:
    1. “But this contexting power of media has been ramped up by electronic media.”
contexing
  1. present participle of contex
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