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to express something (as a text or statement) in different words
I don't understand what you're asking—could you rephrase your question?
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Recent Examples of rephrase
If users give feedback or rephrase their requests, the router learns.
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Dan Fitzpatrick, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
To rephrase the Duchampian and Warholian question: Can one manifestly force the work of art and the work of the commodity into a final congruence by abolishing authorial identity and interference altogether?
—Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Artforum, 1 June 2025
The judge interrupted Steel several times, instructing him to move along or rephrase complicated questions.
—Michael R. Sisak, Arkansas Online, 5 May 2025
To rephrase that, with Joann Fabrics, we’re used to this broad story.
—Callum Booth, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
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Dan Fitzpatrick, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
To rephrase the Duchampian and Warholian question: Can one manifestly force the work of art and the work of the commodity into a final congruence by abolishing authorial identity and interference altogether?
—Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Artforum, 1 June 2025
The judge interrupted Steel several times, instructing him to move along or rephrase complicated questions.
—Michael R. Sisak, Arkansas Online, 5 May 2025
To rephrase that, with Joann Fabrics, we’re used to this broad story.
—Callum Booth, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rephrase
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The poetry lies in the precision, the poetry is in somehow translating sensation and experience into the most forensic language available.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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Here was a program that could translate as well as an expert, make analogies, extemporize, generalize.—
James Somers,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
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This Batul Hassan piece in Jacobin summarizes some of Mamdani’s more popular plans.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
6 Nov. 2025
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The resulting feature was published on March 14, 2022, publicly summarizing the case for the first time in years and providing Army CID contact information.—
Robert Alexander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Oct. 2025
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“Rephrase.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rephrase. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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