paraphrase
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To paraphrase Eric Cantona, you can change most things in life but never your football team.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
To paraphrase the group’s first Top 10 U.S. hit in 1964, time is on their side.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
After considering that last point, another paraphrase comes to mind, an adaptation of Pogo’s famous line: “We have met the tech sector, and he is us.”
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
To paraphrase Winston Churchill, investing in a business-development company can be like buying loans, wrapped in a fund, inside a stock.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026
No prose paraphrase can give any idea of Pindar, except, perhaps, something of his singular power for vivid and minutely detailed description.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
Early in the book, Justice Kennedy paraphrases long conversations with family, friends and mentors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
The passages contain phrases that match exactly, as well as apparent paraphrases and structural similarities.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 9, 2024
Numa dies clutching a piece of paper that paraphrases John 15:13 in the Bible: “No hay amor más grande que el que de la vida por sus amigos.”
From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2024
When it comes to motivating his children, Guy Fieri paraphrases the immortal words of Shaquille O’Neal: “If you want any of this cheese, you’ve gotta get two degrees.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2023
Conversations on words, paraphrases and translations of sentences, are the natural methods of opening the study of language.
From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
As paraphrased by Vogue, Anastasia says the tins are “all about reinventing the ordinary” into “something special and bespoke.”
From Salon ● May 17, 2026
Some responses are paraphrased for clarity or condensed for brevity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 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
This is an example of the application of what is known as the anthropic principle, which can be paraphrased as “We see the universe the way it is because we exist.”
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
But on Monday, a federal district court judge in Massachusetts postponed the effective date on the grounds that—and I am paraphrasing here—the rule is mind-bendingly stupid and would create a needless, self-inflicted economic catastrophe.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
“The reason why you guys are getting this many years,” and this is me paraphrasing, “It’s because we’re trying to make an example.”
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
“There’s nobody who’s happy in all things,” according to Nicostratus, paraphrasing Euripides.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
I’m paraphrasing, but he tells his son something to the extent of — James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, those are yours.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2026
“Well, this is good news,” he says, and offers what I think is a bible quote, or at least a paraphrasing.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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