recontextualize

verb

re·​con·​tex·​tu·​al·​ize ˌrē-kən-ˈteks-chə-wə-ˌlīz 

-chə-ˌlīz

recontextualized; recontextualizing; recontextualizes

transitive verb

: to place (something, such as a literary or artistic work) in a different context

Examples of recontextualize in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

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, 24 May 2023

Other artists whose younger emotions have landed in similar situations have found ways to recontextualize their lyrical missteps without ignoring them altogether. —Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 15 May 2023

Religion can have the capacity to help people recontextualize their reality, and Barry is doing that now. —Selome Hailu, Variety, 8 May 2023

Chang is part of a team of Stanford scholars who launched the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project in 2012 to recover and recontextualize their stories. —Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 2 May 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1954, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for recontextualize

• operationalize
• actualize
• antagonize
• apologise
• apologize
• capitalize
• categorize
• characterize
• commercialize
• conceptualize
• contrariwise
• criminalize

Kids Definition

recontextualize

verb

re·​con·​tex·​tu·​al·​ize

ˌrē-kən-ˈteks-chə-wə-ˌlīz,

-chə-ˌlīz

: to place (something, as a literary or artistic work) in a different context

recontextualizing the story