How to Use contextualize in a Sentence

contextualize

verb

• When the rebellion is historically contextualized, it becomes clear that there were many factors contributing to it.
• Would a man have picked up on this and contextualized it in this way?
  — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2023
• The poet that could contextualize her life has yet to be born.
  — Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2022
• How can anchors contextualize and fact-check his speech in real time, if at all?
  — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 8 Jan. 2019
• The book is let down only by its clunky attempts to contextualize.
  — Malcolm Forbes, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2022
• And with that comes a means to contextualize the ending, which in my opinion is the film’s finest moment.
  — Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Oct. 2024
• This can help contextualize the wide range of potential prices.
  — Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 11 Mar. 2025
• Copp was asked to contextualize where his game-winner and his play of late stack up to the rest of his time in Detroit.
  — Max Bultman, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2026
• The project is an extension of a decades-long effort to share and contextualize these early films.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 19 Mar. 2025
• When the numbers get too large, our little brains struggle to contextualize.
  — Dave Vanderwerp, Car and Driver, 24 Mar. 2022
• The media doesn't have enough stories of that deep friendship for young women to contextualize their own.
  — Olivia Fleming, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 May 2019
• And sometimes the answer is maybe, which is also hard to contextualize for people.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 12 June 2023
• Now, that must be contextualized with the facts of recent history.
  — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Feb. 2026
• Creams aren’t just left on display; they’re contextualized within decades of research.
  — Carol Rh Malasig, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
• Finding something discarded and thought of as mundane, our job is to sort through that and re-contextualize it.
  — Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 22 Apr. 2019
• Maybe something along those lines gets at what Welsh, 77, has been trying to contextualize for a while now.
  — Courtney Crowder, USA Today, 10 Apr. 2026
• But sacks are difficult to contextualize, no matter how they are recorded.
  — Mike Sando, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
• This suggests that news stories like the economy are contextualized by the news outlet and the people who share them.
  — Dr. Marcus Collins, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• For a deeper dive, here are a few pieces that smartly contextualize Abrams’ victory, as well as what’s at stake in the fall.
  — Danielle Jackson, Longreads, 25 May 2018
• There was no way to contextualize his performances because there was no other performer to compare him to.
  — Tony Gervino, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2025
• The problem was not the data but how it was interpreted and contextualized.
  — Artyom Keydunov, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
• Twitter also wrote its own summary of the story to contextualize the trend.
  — Elizabeth Dwoskin, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Oct. 2020
• Those descriptions are reaching the public in the absence of any effort to contextualize or counter them.
  — Maryn McKenna, Wired, 17 Dec. 2020
• The fictions of both films are factually contextualized from the start.
  — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2026
• To help contextualize this earth-shattering news about the addictive treat, cashews are simply the fruit of the cashew apple.
  — Ashley Hoffman, Time, 12 Sep. 2019
• Cronin and Scoble succeed in not only explaining but contextualizing the shift from screens to the world around us.
  — Charlie Fink, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025
• And anything for me that amplifies and helps contextualize Black film is just a net positive.
  — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 11 Feb. 2026
• Dabis plays a mother contextualizing the fate of her son through the tribulations of his grandfather.
  — Alissa Simon, Variety, 5 Nov. 2025
• Re-contextualizing that language and those images in this new form in the book, again, is a way of playing or being in dialogue.
  — Fiction Non Fiction, Literary Hub, 11 Dec. 2025
• The goal of Black Film Archive is to re-contextualize these moments.
  — Uwa Ede-Osifo, NBC News, 14 Feb. 2023