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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’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

Or, as he rephrases the question: “I mean, why doesn’t it violate the Constitution to hold a person in prison for 20 years, for conduct which the Constitution forbids making criminal?”

From Slate ● Oct. 13, 2015

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

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

Fujitsu engineer Gareth Jenkins rephrased parts of a report on the Horizon IT system after advice from barrister Warwick Tatford.

From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2024

She rephrased her posts to clarify she meant the midterm elections.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 27, 2022

In a transcript, the original question about the South Korean concerns had been rephrased to asking about the complexity of creating a menu for a diverse group of athletes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2022

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

And to the student of law comes the task of rephrasing his intricate and often quite beautiful science in relation to modern conceptions.

From First and Last Things by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells