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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
decontextualize .
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Examples
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These days I find I have little tolerance for writing/discussion that completely decontextualizes Thanksgiving from historical events or contemporary meaning.
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As is indicated in the final exchange in pane 6, Deutsch clearly understands that Whites 'insistence on personalization is foolish because it decontextualizes the issue.
Teaching Tool: The Advantages and Limitations of a Race-Themed Political Cartoon 2009
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For all the unscrupulous and shady businessmen and governments of the world, Haiti has always been a fiscal paradise because the Neocolonialists 'manufactures fear, racists myths and false stereotypes about Haitian brutality, inherent poverty, lack of natural resources, incompetence (the common neocolonial storyline/media lies), inherent violence, decontextualizes Haiti's legacy of impunity/corruption and lies about Haiti not having a viable indigenous culture.
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This ten-year story truncates, decontextualizes, and tames the movement while rendering it legalistic, episodic, triumphant and nostalgic.
Archive 2008-05-01 Mary L. Dudziak 2008
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Whether the result of that specific instance would have been “worth it” completely decontextualizes the issue.
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Using TiVo as a reason to watch more TV because you save the time from missing commercials or reducing whole musical units albums, symphonies, etc to their component parts which decontextualizes the music.
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By emphasizing those phenomena rather than Jewish ethnonationalism, West decontextualizes the Israel-Palestine conflict from its proper origin in Zionist colonization.
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