‘My comments about how much I dislike my family were taken outrageously out of context’. Shutterstock/Paper Trident

How to spot the use and abuse of the word ‘context’

It’s common to hear someone claiming controversial comments were ‘taken out of context’ but this is a word with many meanings.

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