take out of context

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Verb

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

to report out of context

Chinese:
Mandarin: 斷章取義／断章取义 (zh) (duànzhāngqǔyì)
Finnish: irrottaa asiayhteydestä
French: décontextualiser (fr)
Galician: sacar de contexto, descontextualizar
German: aus dem Kontext reißen, aus dem Zusammenhang reißen, aus dem Zusammenhang nehmen, dekontextualisieren
Hungarian: szövegösszefüggésből kiragad
Portuguese: tirar de contexto, descontextualizar
Russian: вырыва́ть из конте́кста impf (vyryvátʹ iz kontéksta), вы́рвать из конте́кста pf (výrvatʹ iz kontéksta)
Spanish: sacar de contexto, descontextualizar

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