Word info

recontextualize

Verb

Meaning

recontextualize (third-person singular simple present recontextualizes, present participle recontextualizing, simple past and past participle recontextualized)

(transitive) To set in a new context.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Since James Bond was a secret agent who originated during the Cold War, would recontextualize 007 - "a sexist, misogynist dinosaur"relic of the Cold War" - for the new world order of the 1990s. Source: Internet

But it makes sense because, like on Game of Thrones, Pascal’s energy can recontextualize what viewers might have otherwise taken for granted. Source: Internet

Much of this success comes from the way these tracks synthesize and recontextualize the kind of Vaseline-lensed ’80s pop excess for which the band originally offered the antidote. Source: Internet

This allows the reader to experience you and your life in one context, and then, in a sense, to recontextualize everything upon learning of your status. Source: Internet

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