rephrase
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"No, I'll rephrase that. For the normal man. But the reason he has accomplished what he's accomplished, and the reason he's done what he's done, is because he's not a normal man."
From BBC ● May 21, 2026
She said she volunteered in November to mediate the meetings, instructing residents to wait their turn to speak or rephrase their questions without profanity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 11, 2026
It’s surprisingly challenging to definitively answer this question, as we’ll see, so let’s slightly rephrase: How many naked-eye stars host planets that we know about?
From Scientific American ● Oct. 6, 2023
Cybil admits she didn't think she was qualified – or to rephrase, was untested.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2023
“How on earth do you—” I decided to rephrase the question.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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In the next response, Waters essentially rephrases her answer in response to a similar question, but includes the “confrontational” remark.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2021
She laughs, then rephrases this more delicately: “If I get hurt, I wish them the best, I close the door and I move on.”
From The Guardian ● Nov. 5, 2017
Or, as he rephrases the question: “I mean, why doesn’t it violate the Constitution to hold a person in prison for 20 years, for conduct which the Constitution forbids making criminal?”
From Slate ● Oct. 13, 2015
It’s the way he takes other sources and purposefully either omits credit or rephrases the information so that his audience will likely infer it’s his own work.
From Newsweek
An old friend learns shocking things about the title figure after his death, and the author skillfully rephrases an old truth-that most people know of others only what it is comfortable to know.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He highlighted that plagiarism detection software had found several tracts of Arday's PhD dissertation to be copied verbatim or lightly rephrased from prior academic works by other authors.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
Augustin cited research that documented a pattern in which chatbots rephrased and extrapolated what people shared, and told them they’re unique and that their thoughts have great implications.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
She rephrased her posts to clarify she meant the midterm elections.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 27, 2022
Perhaps the question should be rephrased: What is the movie’s lead?
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2021
We can readily understand Michelangelo’s discomfort, for Titian has rephrased his sculpture in utterly sensuous terms through the painterly application of sonorous color that is characteristic of his work.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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By rephrasing melodies, throwing in slang, using nonsense syllables, embracing scatting, and making it seem as if he was speaking directly to you, he changed the way people sang and thought about vocal performances.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 2026
Wallace tried rephrasing the question by asking if Driver ever thought his career would be easier if he looked like Robert Redford.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2023
Information-rich resources like newspapers and discussion boards might find that these systems are harvesting their material and rephrasing it so eloquently that nobody ever bothers to navigate to the original page.
From Slate ● Mar. 1, 2023
Ukraine’s domestic intelligence agency, the Security Service of Ukraine, known by its Ukrainian acronym S.B.U., issued a statement rephrasing a stanza of a poem by Ukraine’s national poet, Taras Shevchenko.
From New York Times ● Oct. 8, 2022
Our playwriting went badly as we worked at rephrasing, changing, cutting, adding.
From Voices from the Past by Paul Alexander Bartlett