rephrase

"No, I'll rephrase that. For the normal man. But the reason he has accomplished what he's accomplished, and the reason he's done what he's done, is because he's not a normal man."

From BBC ● May 21, 2026

She said she volunteered in November to mediate the meetings, instructing residents to wait their turn to speak or rephrase their questions without profanity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 11, 2026

I’ll rephrase that, since most writers don’t necessarily want to ascribe good or evil to their characters.

From Salon ● Jan. 17, 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

“I see. And can you rephrase that in the form of a question?”

From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein

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

Even when Charlie quotes from court transcripts, he interrupts, rephrases and edits in order to show us more clearly what he wants to say.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 27, 2013

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’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

Cofnas reproduced several tracts of Arday's PhD dissertation which he said the software had found to be copied verbatim or lightly rephrased from prior academic works by other authors.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 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 rephrased her posts to clarify she meant the midterm elections.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 27, 2022

Perhaps the question should be rephrased: What is the movie’s lead?

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2021

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

Interactions in the networked world exemplify this rephrasing even better.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin