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Definition for context

noun as in framework, circumstances

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Learning is best when it is built around doing, and when the context is practical, allowing students to try their hand at solving problems even as they’re still learning.

It’s hard not to look at today’s announcement in the context of the overall challenges that Mozilla is going through.

Unicef now plans to run a series of pilot programs with various partner countries to observe how practical and effective their guidelines are in different contexts.

The video above also provides the missing context from the clips.

Now, the spirit of the Bauhaus has been invoked once more, in the context of Europe’s grand plan to go green.

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In that context, Sotto Sotto was one of the all-out survivors.

Prevalence depends on context, and sometimes unique advantages outweigh the genetic costs.

I recognize my inability to truly understand these events in the same context or view these events through exactly the same prism.

Just wanted to place it in the context of slates needing picture choices that throw off revenue to make the numbers work.

Clearly the liberation of Gross took place in the context of what might be called a “grand bargain.”

She held it while the trooper bent over the strange scrawl, and ran his eyes along it to learn the context.

If the context makes an otherwise indefinite thing definite, it is sufficient.

The context in Chaucer does not seem to warrant the interpretation given by Tyrwhit.

I alter pleyneth in l. 2302 to pleyeth, to suit the context more closely.

The translator could think of no better word, because the context is jocular.

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On this page you'll find 27 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to context, such as: background, situation, text, ambience, conditions, and connection.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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