paraphrase

To paraphrase the maxim falsely attributed to Lincoln, you can fool a whole bunch of the people for a hell of a long time, but you can’t fool all of them forever.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 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

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

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

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

Helena paraphrases the “Wizard of Oz,” saying: “Pay no attention to the pins behind the curtain.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2023

He likes a line that paraphrases the Book of Isaiah: “Over your cities grass will grow.”

From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2022

That it is also studded with poetic paraphrases of many modern authors has often been asserted.

From Vondel's Lucifer by Joost van den Vondel

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

From Salon ● May 17, 2026

It paraphrased him as saying that not everything that was being written was true.

From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 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

Mr McGrath's daughter, Noeleen, paraphrased Charles Dickens: "He was the best of men and not the worst of men."

From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2025

She quoted Frost; she misquoted Stevens; she paraphrased Rilke's description of love.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

El-Sayed asked before paraphrasing John F. Kennedy’s famous line about whether his Catholic faith would make him allegiant to the pope.

From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026

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

“My favorite Gene Roddenberry quote is … and I’m paraphrasing, but he said that there is some basic human need in that there is a tomorrow,” said Anson Mount, who stars in “Strange New Worlds.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

Sayers praised the art underlying the artifice, paraphrasing Aristotle on the practice of literary deception.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

“Lead me not into temptation but deliver me from evil,” he says, paraphrasing Matthew 6:13.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel