take out of context

English

Verb

take (something) out of context

(idiomatic, transitive) To report (something) without taking into account the context in which it occurred.
Synonym: decontextualize

The statistics are not very meaningful when taken out of context.

Translations

to report out of context

Chinese:
Mandarin: 斷章取義 (zh), 断章取义 (zh) (duànzhāngqǔyì)
Finnish: irrottaa asiayhteydestä

French: décontextualiser (fr)
Hungarian: szövegösszefüggésből kiragad
Russian: вырыва́ть из конте́кста impf (vyryvátʹ iz kontéksta), вы́рвать из конте́кста pf (výrvatʹ iz kontéksta)

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