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To paraphrase the late great Chick Hearn, “If the attendance was 51,144, many fans came dressed as empty seats.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

In striving for competitive advantage, recognize that, to paraphrase the Red Queen from Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking-Glass,” it may take you all the running to just stay in the same place.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

To paraphrase Eric Cantona, you can change most things in life but never your football team.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

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 Nietzsche, there are two types of Greek: the Apollonian and the Dionysian.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Early in the book, Justice Kennedy paraphrases long conversations with family, friends and mentors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025

The extent of duplication varies between passages, but all contain multiple identical phrases, as well as clear paraphrases and significant structural similarity.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 9, 2024

The bots “can spit out derivative works: material that is based on, mimics, summaries, or paraphrases Plaintiffs’ works, and harms the market for them.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2023

A chatty, warmhearted collection, the book is also littered with casual epiphanies, as when Brian Eno paraphrases the cybernetician Warren Sturgis McCulloch, saying:

From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2022

Our first works of fiction were translations or paraphrases of Eastern tales introduced into Western Europe by the returning crusaders.

From The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

As paraphrased by Vogue, Anastasia says the tins are “all about reinventing the ordinary” into “something special and bespoke.”

From Salon ● May 17, 2026

When the conversation turned to his legacy, Powell paraphrased the opening of Frank Sinatra’s My Way.

From Barron's ● Mar. 30, 2026

In the latter portions of the book, though, paraphrased conversations raise real questions—especially his conversations with Scalia, whom he recalls as a great friend, which is no doubt true.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025

In his daily conference call on Monday with journalists, Peskov claimed some of what was said in the NBC interview was "paraphrased."

From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2025

The italicized language in the description of the referenced text exchange is paraphrased, not directly quoted.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

“There’s nobody who’s happy in all things,” according to Nicostratus, paraphrasing Euripides.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026

“They said they would come,” Enguidanos said, paraphrasing a typical response, “and they just didn’t show up.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2026

Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet was at the event, and in Tapper and Thompson’s paraphrasing, it made him consider “what Biden’s age likely meant when it came to the issue of immigration.”

From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2025

“We live in a country where we don’t ask what we can do for our country,” Booker said, paraphrasing President John F. Kennedy.

From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2025

Bacon writes of ‘the law of nature and the mutual contracts of things’: he is paraphrasing Lucretius.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton