phrasing
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The actual phrasing he used was far ruder than that – but you get the drift.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Patel’s style has been built around dark insinuation, and in this case his phrasing was official enough to seem consequential, yet vague enough to be exploited.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026
He said the phrasing was deliberately cautious, "avoiding strong words like 'protest' or 'against'", but that the authorities nonetheless asked him to take it down.
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026
Ms. Musgraves has a limited voice in terms of technical ability, but she’s good at calibrating her phrasing to match a song’s mood.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026
At some point, Dr. Singh had told Mom not to ask if I was feeling anxious, so she’d stopped phrasing it as a direct question.
From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green
A.I. will make it easier to generate first drafts, and provide editing help and suggest alternative phrasings.
From Slate ● Apr. 21, 2023
They captured the unique phrasings of drivers of the capital’s private minibuses — which once constituted a hefty fraction of Kyiv transport, but began to fade in the era of Uber — hawking their destinations.
From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2023
The version channeling comedian Jerry Seinfeld captured his signature phrasings.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 6, 2023
You can also look for the same sorts of clues in charity-related emails that you would in any unsolicited message, he said, such as misspellings, grammatical errors and odd phrasings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2022
In these instances, I believe that her actions speak even louder than whatever words she might have said, so I have filled in some cracks in the research with my own phrasings.
From "Fannie Never Flinched" by Mary Cronk Farrell
