Usually means: Placing information within its environment.
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  1. contextualize: Merriam-Webster
  2. contextualize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. contextualize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. contextualize: Collins English Dictionary
  5. contextualize: Wordnik
  6. contextualize: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. contextualize: Wiktionary
  8. contextualize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. contextualize: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. contextualize: Dictionary.com
  11. Contextualize: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. contextualize: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  13. contextualize: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. contextualize: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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▸ verb:  To place something or someone in a particular context.

Similar:
contextualise, recontextualize, recontextualise, spatialize, place, temporalize, locate, situate, relativize, account for, more...

Opposite:
decontextualize

Types:
situate, locate, place, position, more...

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Similar:
contextualise, recontextualize, recontextualise, spatialize, place, temporalize, locate, situate, relativize, account for, more...

Opposite:
decontextualize

Types:
situate, locate, place, position, more...

Colors:
    teal,     olive,     beige,     charcoal,     mauve, more...



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