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an instance of expressing something in different words
your essays on human rights should have some original thought and not be simply a paraphrase of what's in the textbook
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to express something (as a text or statement) in different words
could you paraphrase your diagnosis of my medical condition, using simpler language?
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Recent Examples of paraphrase
Bob Blaisdell, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Dec. 2024
The combination of support for RFK Jr. and the MAGA paraphrase explain President-elect Donald Trump's choice of the political scion for secretary of Health and Human Services.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024
Brett F. Braley-Palko, Forbes.com, 31 May 2025
Consequently, reasoning from large language models over paragraphs and documents becomes more like summarizing or paraphrasing.
—Manas Gaur, The Conversation, 17 Apr. 2025
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Noun
Despite the patchwork libretto, Handel ingeniously parlayed Jennens’ quotations and paraphrases from the Old and New testaments into unexpected evocations of wonder and awe.
—Bob Blaisdell, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Dec. 2024
The combination of support for RFK Jr. and the MAGA paraphrase explain President-elect Donald Trump's choice of the political scion for secretary of Health and Human Services.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024
Verb
Details Make the Difference To paraphrase Aristotle, the whole of a suit is often greater than the sum of its parts.
—Brett F. Braley-Palko, Forbes.com, 31 May 2025
Consequently, reasoning from large language models over paragraphs and documents becomes more like summarizing or paraphrasing.
—Manas Gaur, The Conversation, 17 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for paraphrase
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The platform already supports multiple hardware options and powers live captioning, translation, notifications, and an AI assistant.—
Charlie Fink,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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Editor and co-translator of the five-volume series of Jorge Luis Borges’ poetry and non-fictions for Penguin paperback classics (2010), her most recent translation, Guadalupe Nettel’s Bezoar and Other Unsettling Stories, was shortlisted for the 2021 Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize.—
Suzanne Jill Levine
June 30,
Literary Hub,
30 June 2025
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But underneath that, there’s often something harder to name — a kind of emotional itch, or mood, that doesn’t really translate.—
Jordi Lippe-McGraw,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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The team first made these findings in fruit flies, but the discovery also translated to human cells that modeled tau build-up.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
30 June 2025
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The motive can be summarized as pure agency, pure evil; in other words, premeditated murder.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
4 July 2025
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This week's Think Texas column summarizes her work.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American Statesman,
2 July 2025
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“Paraphrase.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paraphrase. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.
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