How to Use contextualize in a Sentence

contextualize

verb

• When the rebellion is historically contextualized, it becomes clear that there were many factors contributing to it.
• Would a man have picked up on this and contextualized it in this way?
  — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2023
• The poet that could contextualize her life has yet to be born.
  — Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2022
• Hosts @Villarrealy & @indiefocus will talk to top talent — like @iamrashidajones, @evilhag and more — and contextualize how the pandemic will shape the awards races.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2020
• Part of the answer comes down to one word: contextualize.
  — Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2022
• The goal of Black Film Archive is to re-contextualize these moments.
  — Uwa Ede-Osifo, NBC News, 14 Feb. 2023
• The night ends on a positive note from Harvey Mason Jr., who looks back on the event to contextualize it in the framework of the culture that brought them here.
  — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 10 Dec. 2023
• For a deeper dive, here are a few pieces that smartly contextualize Abrams’ victory, as well as what’s at stake in the fall.
  — Danielle Jackson, Longreads, 25 May 2018
• How can anchors contextualize and fact-check his speech in real time, if at all?
  — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 8 Jan. 2019
• The book is let down only by its clunky attempts to contextualize.
  — Malcolm Forbes, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2022
• So to contextualize that further for our listeners: now a lot of people will show up to shows dressed by brands.
  — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 3 Aug. 2023
• The media doesn't have enough stories of that deep friendship for young women to contextualize their own.
  — Olivia Fleming, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 May 2019
• To help contextualize this earth-shattering news about the addictive treat, cashews are simply the fruit of the cashew apple.
  — Ashley Hoffman, Time, 12 Sep. 2019
• Kids have to be able to contextualize, to deconstruct it.
  — WIRED, 25 Aug. 2017
• This suggests that news stories like the economy are contextualized by the news outlet and the people who share them.
  — Dr. Marcus Collins, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• Just like honoring the seasonal rhythms of the year or the phases of the moon, working with the card of the year can be a way to frame and contextualize a specific period of time.
  — Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
• Essays contextualize the history of slavery as part of the founding of the United States.
  — Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2022
• There’s news satire, which applies to how programs like The Daily Show use humor to contextualize and mock real-world events.
  — Jackie Mansky, Smithsonian, 7 May 2018
• The videos are a great way to really contextualize the size of this monster; from the metal fingertip to where the wrist will connect, for example, the hand is about 6.5 feet wide.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 22 Sep. 2020
• Popular culture helped me contextualize that in terms of how we are allowed to be seen.
  — Eddie S. Glaude, Time, 15 Feb. 2018
• And sometimes the answer is maybe, which is also hard to contextualize for people.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 12 June 2023
• Leonard Floyd sat at his locker stall late Thursday, speaking in a quiet voice and trying to find the right way to contextualize his emotions.
  — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 6 Sep. 2019
• Finding something discarded and thought of as mundane, our job is to sort through that and re-contextualize it.
  — Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 22 Apr. 2019
• Activists from Street Roots and politicians from the county provide bookends to the data and contextualize the numbers, Lewis said.
  — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 9 Nov. 2019
• Say Something through a friend and were amazed at the work and research the group has done during the past couple years to contextualize the Confederate monument.
  — al, 23 Aug. 2020
• Those descriptions are reaching the public in the absence of any effort to contextualize or counter them.
  — Maryn McKenna, Wired, 17 Dec. 2020
• There is, first, the attempt to contextualize the development of American fashion between the mid-19th century and the mid-20th and to place it in situ.
  — New York Times, 6 May 2022
• When the numbers get too large, our little brains struggle to contextualize.
  — Dave Vanderwerp, Car and Driver, 24 Mar. 2022
• The actor contextualized the importance of this award in our current political climate, urging audience members at the ceremony to vote.
  — Andrés Buenahora, Variety, 16 Sep. 2024
• For the most part, Stevenson purchased and then contextualized existing artworks rather than commissioning new ones, meaning these artists were allowed to complete their visions without pressure to please.
  — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 2 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024