"contextomy" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1964, Milton Mayer, What can a man do?: A selection of his most challenging writings, page 33:",
          "text": "…saying that the Literary Gazette had committed the Chicago Tribune's habitual crime of contextomy against me.",
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          "ref": "1967, Paul F. Boller, Quotemanship: the use and abuse of quotations for polemical and other purposes, page 286:",
          "text": "The competent quoteman, no matter how eager he is to outwit his opponent, will have neither the need nor the inclination to stoop to contextomy of the flagrantly mendacious sort.",
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          "ref": "2008 May 29, Amol Rajan, “Excellent! Theatres forced to withdraw misleading reviews”, in The Independent:",
          "text": "The prosecution would have to prove that audiences were misled by the practice, known as contextomy. Those who break the laws could face fines […]",
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