Word: context
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...national epidemic of violence in greater context, there were 93 murders in Northern Ireland (home of the Irish Republican Army and Protestant para-military groups) in 1988, more than 375 in Washington. This year, the figure for D.C. may exceed...
...efforts must, however, be seen within the larger context of Korea's role on the world stage. As Kim has stated repeatedly, these institutional reforms, no matter how difficult they may be to implement or how antithetical to Korean culture they may be, are necessary to put his nation on the road to true modernization, and to win Korea a place among the most developed nations in the world...
...Aristide: Let's put the text in its context. The coup had started. I was using words to answer the bullets...
...today the narrative defects of Oscar Hammerstein II's book are too glaring for Prince's razzmatazz to overcome. At best the script is a faint and fractured ghost of Edna Ferber's overstuffed novel. At worst it is a herky-jerky alternation of melodramatic vignettes yanked out of context and escapist bursts of clowning and dance...
Chief among the criticisms was the choice of the word "trenchant" to describe widespread personnel problems in Expos. Teachers said the word was imprecise and didn't really mean anything in the context of describing personnel problems. So we checked the Oxford English dictionary...