context-free

adjective

con·text-free ˈkän-ˌtekst-ˈfrē

: of, relating to, or being a grammar or language based on rules that describe a change in a string without reference to elements not in the string

also : being such a rule

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Echoing expert advice about avoiding health misinformation, Sharp suggests consumers should be suspicious of vague, oversimplified, context-free statements about the causes and fixes of inflammation, especially ones from people who make money off your attention. —

Keren Landman, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018 The Times identified multiple inaccuracies and context-free statements in BNN stories that seemed to extend beyond simple human error. —

Tiffany Hsu, New York Times, 6 June 2024 Last night my colleague Kylie Robison broke the news that X (formerly Twitter) plans to transform news article links shared on the platform into context-free images. —

Alexandra Sternlicht, Fortune, 22 Aug. 2023 The show has always existed in a pre-nostalgic haze, the vicious realities of life in the Roy family preceded by the fragmented opening credit sequence that turns their lives into snapshots from a context-free family album. —

Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Apr. 2023