take out of context

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

take (something) out of context

1. (idiomatic, transitive) To report (something) without taking into account the context in which it occurred.

   Synonym: decontextualize

   The statistics are not very meaningful when taken out of context.

Translations

to report out of context

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 斷章取義／断章取义 (zh) (duànzhāngqǔyì), 断章取义 (zh) (duànzhāngqǔyì)

• Finnish: irrottaa asiayhteydestä
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• French: décontextualiser (fr)
• Hungarian: szövegösszefüggésből kiragad
• Russian: вырыва́ть из конте́кста impf (vyryvátʹ iz kontéksta), вы́рвать из конте́кста pf (výrvatʹ iz kontéksta)