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What does decontextualize mean?

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  1. (transitive) To divest of context.
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The elimination of preambular paragraphs from the original texts was also a matter of discussion since, according to some delegates, this could decontextualize the measure.
But he here chooses to turn attention away from the narrative of warfare and prefers to decontextualize acts of aggression.
While periods exist when the breadth of glaciated areas may exceed those of past cooler periods, climate sceptics decontextualize this information to combat climate change.
For example, Paget seems to decontextualize naively NSA-CIA actions in relationship to the military-force side of Pax Americana.
We perhaps tend to decontextualize print culture and to discuss it within our own circles.

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