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.
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)
Russian: вырыва́ть из конте́кста impf (vyryvátʹ iz kontéksta), вы́рвать из конте́кста pf (výrvatʹ iz kontéksta)

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