as in translating
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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McGregor recognizes that the work of translating between Western science and TEK is critical in certain contexts and applications, while there has also been significant cooption and misinterpretation.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
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Mock my prediction, as some of you gently did, that live-translating AirPods could crack open global commerce.—
Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
9 Oct. 2025
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“Paraphrasing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paraphrasing. Accessed 13 Oct. 2025.
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