The manner in which it was arrived

[Randy Alexander]

On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 3:26 AM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:

> For me, "where" is a term of place, and the copywriter in me does not
> consider context to be a place.
>

Along those lines, it would seem that "appear" doesn't work either; doesn't
something need a place (even if it's a metaphorical place) to appear?

COCA has 127 instances of "context where", most of which are from academic
(presumably copyedited) writing.

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