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vb. To place something or someone in a particular context.
Usage examples of "contextualize".
That mind further contextualizes sensory contexts is neither new nor avoidable.
An analysis of this hitherto unexamined side of Leonardo provides us with a useful means of framing and contextualizing his life.
It felt important to contextualize them somehow, to give them meaning and substance apart from abstract self-consistency.
Trying to quantify or contextualize the value of any given motion picture, attempting to link movies to what is happening in the world outside those dark, still rooms where something other than an immediate compositional punch, however stylish and not boring should be the sought chalice, becomes an exercise in profound and introspective musing.
I wove them into a sweeping form and contextualized them to suit my momentary fancy.