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adv. Without context that may be needed for understanding the original meaning. alt. Without context that may be needed for understanding the original meaning.
Usage examples of "out of context".
Disembodied snippets of conversations are snatched from the ether, perhaps out of context, and may be misinterpreted by an analyst who then secretly transmits them to spy agencies and law enforcement offices around the world.
Considered out of context, the answer would be: yes, it is desirable.
It was completely out of context with anything I had seen in New Mexico, though it was built of native rock.
To say that my comments on that recording were presented out of context would be an understatement.
And this thought, taken out of context, without the later disclaimers, culminated in the Nazi pogroms of eradication of the Jews, and the eugenics plan designed to bring forth a thousand years of Aryan supermen.
You read fragments and excerpts from holy books and it's taking things out of context.
The series is based on the tenets of premillennial dispensationalism, a theoretical -- and highly subjective -- construct of Biblical prophecies (and, on occasion, scriptures lifted out of context) that was explored in Michael Tolkin's disturbing motion picture The Rapture.