paraphrase
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When looking at the stock market right now, the increasingly obvious question is to paraphrase that catchy 1940s tune: “Is you is, or is you ain’t, in a bubble?”
From Barron's • May 29, 2026
To paraphrase an old saying, the friend of my enemy is my enemy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026
To paraphrase Homer Simpson, “It’s sad ‘cause it’s true.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2026
The art that he created there embodies a kind of deconstructed narcissism; Samaras is fascinated with himself, but mostly as—to paraphrase the photographer Garry Winogrand’s choice of subjects—“something to be photographed.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026
Evidently, Giordano has no word for ‘invention’ or ‘discovery’, so he relies on a paraphrase: ‘a new technique that never existed previously’.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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