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But wars are also projections beyond the border of political contests at home, to rephrase the great Clausewitz.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026

Blanche keeps getting interrupted by mostly successful objections from the prosecutors, and the judge has occasionally asked him to rephrase the question.

From BBC ● May 16, 2024

I’m going to slightly rephrase that question, though: How did those defining, significant turns like Glenn’s death or equivalent developments inform your approach to these latest spin-offs?

From Salon ● Mar. 3, 2024

It’s surprisingly challenging to definitively answer this question, as we’ll see, so let’s slightly rephrase: How many naked-eye stars host planets that we know about?

From Scientific American ● Oct. 6, 2023

Thus, we can finally rephrase the question about the modern world’s inequalities as follows: why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents?

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

In the next response, Waters essentially rephrases her answer in response to a similar question, but includes the “confrontational” remark.

From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2021

Not even Pinocchio’s dullest young reader will fail to miss Collodi’s message, since he rephrases it in one way or another in nearly every chapter.

From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2011

It also, perhaps, rephrases the question of what defines a national theatre: suggesting that its job is to travel out into the nation rather than hoping the nation will gladly troop to its door.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 2, 2011

It’s the way he takes other sources and purposefully either omits credit or rephrases the information so that his audience will likely infer it’s his own work.

From Newsweek

An old friend learns shocking things about the title figure after his death, and the author skillfully rephrases an old truth-that most people know of others only what it is comfortable to know.

From Time Magazine Archive

The “Family Docudrama” series and much that followed read as something like autofiction, drawn from life but juiced up, rephrased, with gestures and incidents isolated and amplified.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

He highlighted that plagiarism detection software had found several tracts of Arday's PhD dissertation to be copied verbatim or lightly rephrased from prior academic works by other authors.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

Augustin cited research that documented a pattern in which chatbots rephrased and extrapolated what people shared, and told them they’re unique and that their thoughts have great implications.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026

She was responding to a Los Angeles Times reporter asking if there was anything she said in the 2021 documentary “Wendy Williams: What a Mess!” that she wished she could have rephrased.

From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2024

We can readily understand Michelangelo’s discomfort, for Titian has rephrased his sculpture in utterly sensuous terms through the painterly application of sonorous color that is characteristic of his work.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson

It sparked mocking on social media, and from rivals such as Wyze, which put out its own online video satirically rephrasing Ring's commercial.

From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2026

By rephrasing melodies, throwing in slang, using nonsense syllables, embracing scatting, and making it seem as if he was speaking directly to you, he changed the way people sang and thought about vocal performances.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 2026

Wallace tried rephrasing the question by asking if Driver ever thought his career would be easier if he looked like Robert Redford.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2023

Information-rich resources like newspapers and discussion boards might find that these systems are harvesting their material and rephrasing it so eloquently that nobody ever bothers to navigate to the original page.

From Slate ● Mar. 1, 2023

Our playwriting went badly as we worked at rephrasing, changing, cutting, adding.

From Voices from the Past by Paul Alexander Bartlett