0 to consider something or to help other people consider something in its context (= the situation within which it exists or happens), which can help explain it:
Each chapter helps to define and contextualize words such as borrow and lend.
To contextualize how these data were collected an overview of the methodology of the wider evaluation is presented here.
For example, many heuristic systems biases serve to contextualize problemsolving situations.
Three facts may help contextualize who the problem preschoolers in this sample were.
We therefore see the need to contextualize our ethical conclusions within a wider set of recommendations and needed reforms.
Most contemporary scholars have recognized the need to contextualize more broadly.
And that discussion revealed a great deal about the public's psychological need to contextualize and interpret a great national trauma.
This is a book that will generate many further studies which will question, amplify, or (hopefully) explain and contextualize the findings.
