take out of context

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take out of context (third-person singular simple present takes out of context, present participle taking out of context, simple past took out of context, past participle taken out of context)

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

   Synonym: decontextualize

   Antonym: contextualize

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