context-free
adjective
con·text-free
ˈkän-ˌtekst-ˈfrē 
: of, relating to, or being a grammar or language based on rules that describe a change in a string without reference to elements not in the string
also
: being such a rule
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The wish to be context-free often came in the wake of an unresolvable pretext, which was where real life was.
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Yiyun Li, New Yorker, 15 June 2025
Echoing expert advice about avoiding health misinformation, Sharp suggests consumers should be suspicious of vague, oversimplified, context-free statements about the causes and fixes of inflammation, especially ones from people who make money off your attention.
—Keren Landman, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
The Times identified multiple inaccuracies and context-free statements in BNN stories that seemed to extend beyond simple human error.
—Tiffany Hsu, New York Times, 6 June 2024
Last night my colleague Kylie Robison broke the news that X (formerly Twitter) plans to transform news article links shared on the platform into context-free images.
—Alexandra Sternlicht, Fortune, 22 Aug. 2023
The show has always existed in a pre-nostalgic haze, the vicious realities of life in the Roy family preceded by the fragmented opening credit sequence that turns their lives into snapshots from a context-free family album.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Apr. 2023
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Yiyun Li, New Yorker, 15 June 2025
Echoing expert advice about avoiding health misinformation, Sharp suggests consumers should be suspicious of vague, oversimplified, context-free statements about the causes and fixes of inflammation, especially ones from people who make money off your attention.
—Keren Landman, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
The Times identified multiple inaccuracies and context-free statements in BNN stories that seemed to extend beyond simple human error.
—Tiffany Hsu, New York Times, 6 June 2024
Last night my colleague Kylie Robison broke the news that X (formerly Twitter) plans to transform news article links shared on the platform into context-free images.
—Alexandra Sternlicht, Fortune, 22 Aug. 2023
The show has always existed in a pre-nostalgic haze, the vicious realities of life in the Roy family preceded by the fragmented opening credit sequence that turns their lives into snapshots from a context-free family album.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Apr. 2023
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“Context-free.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/context-free. Accessed 27 Jun. 2025.
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