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Context matters. A rhetoric trick/trap often used is to include context, but not complete context. That trick/trap is pretty much the only way I have seen:

> Floyd's length criminal history and drug use

used.

It a trick because people use the technique to trick people. It is a trap because people trap themselves with the technique, putting blinders on themselves.




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