in context
idiom
1
: in a sentence with other words
To really know a word, you must be able to use it in context.
2
: while thinking about the group of conditions that exist where and when something happens
We need to consider these events in context.
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To put the current situation in context, 10.5 million tourists arrived in the first three months of 2025, more than visited Japan in the whole of 2013.
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Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 May 2025
To keep up with the deluge, Abstract tracks all the aforementioned data to provide insights into risks and opportunities in context.
—Giovanni René Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025
With the courage to ask: What does this mean in context?
—Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
But all of them fail because an examination of those statements in context confirms that a reasonable viewer would have understood the Fox News shows at issue to accurately convey what the President was claiming (and still claims) concerning the results of the 2020 Election.
—Ted Johnson, Deadline, 1 May 2025
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Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 May 2025
To keep up with the deluge, Abstract tracks all the aforementioned data to provide insights into risks and opportunities in context.
—Giovanni René Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025
With the courage to ask: What does this mean in context?
—Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
But all of them fail because an examination of those statements in context confirms that a reasonable viewer would have understood the Fox News shows at issue to accurately convey what the President was claiming (and still claims) concerning the results of the 2020 Election.
—Ted Johnson, Deadline, 1 May 2025
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“In context.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20context. Accessed 2 Jun. 2025.
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