How to Use recontextualize in a Sentence

recontextualize

verb
Definition of recontextualizenext
  • Text is a very easy medium to chop up and recontextualize — just take a screenshot and tweet it!
    — New York Times, 8 Oct. 2021
  • And for me what this does is recontextualize and reshowcase the actual work that’s already in the object.
    — Sean Santiago, ELLE Decor, 8 June 2022
  • Rossi’s primary goal, then, is to recontextualize Warhol as somebody who had loves and lovers.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Mar. 2022
  • But there are also a slew of videos in which students recontextualize the bathroom social space and play with its perception.
    — Casey Newton, The Verge, 13 Aug. 2019
  • In her Moonbeaming podcast episode detailing the theme of the Lovers, Gottesdiener helps recontextualize the work that the Lovers card does within us.
    — Gala Mukomolova, refinery29.com, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Once again, Stone is trying to recontextualize the primal drives of classic tragedy in the familiar landscape of today.
    — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2020
  • But this latest morsel from the Austen family may help recontextualize the novelist's work -- and lend it a new relevancy.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 16 June 2021
  • Plenty of old songs of all flavors create minor tidal waves on TikTok, where teen-agers with no prior knowledge of an artist can recontextualize music against the backdrop of a dance challenge or a joke.
    — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022
  • Described as a satirical musical, the movie will reinterpret and recontextualize some of Williams’ songs.
    — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Her achievement here is not to reinvent the coming-of-age narrative so much as recontextualize it, refusing the temptations of solipsism that can sometimes seep into cruel stories of youth.
    — Justin Chang, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 June 2019
  • Now, songwriting is an exercise at looking inward, using the past to recontextualize the future.
    — Steven Edelstone, EW.com, 26 May 2020
  • To call Jackson’s professed attack an act of terrorism is also to recontextualize the age of lynching as an earlier age of terrorism, forgotten by most, but whose scars still linger in the memory of black America.
    — Jamelle Bouie, Slate Magazine, 24 Mar. 2017
  • The palm inspired her to use this highly abundant, resilient, but often discarded element, and recontextualize it.
    — Samanta Helou Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2022
  • YouTubers like Lindsey Ellis craft long, brilliant video essays that recontextualize broadly familiar films with unique insights.
    — Wired, 1 Oct. 2019
  • Among his suggestions: display the monuments in museums, display them in parks designated for that specific purpose, put them in storage, or recontextualize them.
    — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 12 June 2020
  • Beer’s work tracks a Westerner’s aesthetic journey into an ancient spiritual culture that Sherpa works joyfully to recontextualize in the present day.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The city should complete an audit of monuments on publicly accessible land and develop strategies to recontextualize or remove those that are outdated or fraught, the Civic Memory Working Group recommended in its 166-page report.
    — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2021
  • Millard's art looks to recontextualize everyday objects into powerful symbols—other art on his Facebook page, called Voices Through Art, show nails turned into military crosses.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 8 Feb. 2017
  • Improvisations arrive in judicious bite-size pieces, enhancing arrangements that deftly recontextualize themes within musical landscapes that shift from soul-jazz to samba.
    — Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader, 2 Nov. 2017
  • Sleeping Beauty Castle is also symbolic of a place where America’s most popular art form — cinema — can take physical shape and become a spot to reframe, recontextualize and reorient our relationship with our country’s myths and possibilities.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2022
  • The series’ compassionate approach to the classic murder-mystery move — taking a beat to revisit and recontextualize a previously peripheral character — bestows a distinctive generosity upon the array of individuals who inhabit this world.
    — Vulture, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Changues's drawings often recontextualize Polynesian women, reinstalling them in their natural environments.
    — Jeff Chu, Travel + Leisure, 30 Jan. 2022
  • To recontextualize vernacular architecture as anonymous sculpture was essentially Duchampian.
    — Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 18 July 2022

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