take out of context
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take out of context (third-person singular simple present takes out of context, present participle taking out of context, simple past took out of context, past participle taken out of context)
- (idiomatic, transitive) To report (something) without taking into account the context in which it occurred.
- Synonym: decontextualize
- Antonym: contextualize
- The statistics are not very meaningful when taken out of context.
Translations[edit]
to report out of context
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