How to Use rephrase in a Sentence

rephrase

verb
  • I don't understand what you're asking—could you rephrase your question?
  • Or to rephrase it: Are teams living and dying with 3-pointers killing the game?
    Dallas News, 6 June 2022
  • To rephrase that in plain English: A person will die, choked with blood, from a shock wave that was far too weak to move him.
    Rachel Lance, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Mar. 2020
  • If visitors ask a question too off the wall, they are politely asked to rephrase.
    Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 1 Oct. 2020
  • As rephrased by the publication, looking great shouldn't be attached to a number.
    Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 7 June 2023
  • When the reporter tried to rephrase the question, Saban established that his comprehension had not been the issue.
    Matt Stahl | Mstahl@al.com, al, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The key to handling objections is to rephrase them into questions that can help the customer make better decisions.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 28 June 2021
  • Gmail completes sentences, as Grammarly suggests how to rephrase a paragraph.
    Hod Fleishman, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Sure, generative AI can rephrase your emails to sound like Jerry Seinfeld.
    Reece Rogers, WIRED, 1 Mar. 2023
  • This happens frequently, Broadwell said: The Timucua side rephrases the Franciscan questions in ways that are considerably less judgy.
    Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 May 2023
  • Since then, the Chamber has softened its rhetoric, in keeping with the conservative trend of rephrasing unpopular positions in the language of pluralism.
    Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The October report will rephrase its telework questions to remove references to the pandemic.
    Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Ted: And a rephrasing program, that is legitimately impressive.
    The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 10 May 2023
  • In this analogy, a conventional search engine is the student reciting something verbatim, but ChatGPT is rephrasing it.
    The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 10 May 2023
  • In addition to directing prosecutors to redact the identities of 37 people from the report, Taylor told the attorney general to rephrase pieces of the document to avoid identifying 60 other people.
    Lea Skene, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2023

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