phrasing
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A sermon used to take him 10 to 15 hours to prepare; a chatbot doing first-pass research and phrasing shaves off several of them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
The actual phrasing he used was far ruder than that – but you get the drift.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
This phrasing appears to reserve press conferences for big announcements — a change from the past few Fed chairs who spoke to reporters four and then eight times a year after monetary-policy decisions.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 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
“I recognized the sound more than anything, Reshi. Its phrasing was very old, archaic. I couldn’t make heads or tails of it.”
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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
