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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
Tariq Samad, IEEE Spectrum, 17 July 2025
So here’s a paraphrase that seems apt today: Harvard delenda est.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 5 Apr. 2025
Bethy Squires, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2026
The problem is that the future, to paraphrase a common saying, is like a foreign country.
—Jake Angelo, Fortune, 28 Apr. 2026
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Noun
To paraphrase, the more uncertain the situation, the more one should hedge one’s bets.
—Tariq Samad, IEEE Spectrum, 17 July 2025
So here’s a paraphrase that seems apt today: Harvard delenda est.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 5 Apr. 2025
Verb
Maybe that’s why this new movie — in which billionaires, to paraphrase fellow Fox property Homer Simpson, are the cause of and solution to most of life’s problems — winds up feeling like even more of a fairy tale than the original.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2026
The problem is that the future, to paraphrase a common saying, is like a foreign country.
—Jake Angelo, Fortune, 28 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for paraphrase
Noun
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People are available to speak with you 24 hours a day, seven days a week in English, Spanish and 200 more languages through translation services.—
Marissa Perlman,
CBS News,
13 May 2026
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Lost in translation The price tag of insurance plans is not the only barrier to being in control of the system.—
Davi Jacobs,
Baltimore Sun,
13 May 2026
Verb
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The design ethos translates to a warren of nook-and-cranny sitting rooms decorated in sage and slate, ox-blood leather, curiosities and ancestral portraits.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
16 May 2026
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Guiding us through the site, which was filled with a stunning profusion of brilliantly red poppies and fragrant chamomile flowers, was a local archeologist who lives and works at the site, and whose Turkish commentary was deftly translated for us by our charming guide.—
Paul Brady,
Travel + Leisure,
15 May 2026
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Writing and translating had become my only job.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 May 2026
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For both captioning and translating, the Captify app records transcriptions of whatever runs through the glasses.—
Will Greenwald,
PC Magazine,
29 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Notion reached $500 million in annual recurring revenue in 2025, and growth has accelerated every month since May when the company introduced AI agents to search through files or summarize meetings.—
Ellen Sheng,
CNBC,
19 May 2026
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Researchers used the Amazon reviews of a handful of electronic products, which were then summarized by several large language models (LLMs), including those based on Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT.—
Roy Stephen Canivel,
Footwear News,
19 May 2026
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“Paraphrase.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paraphrase. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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