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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
By offloading tasks like contextual rephrasing to a lightweight LLM, teams preserved conversational quality while cutting unnecessary overhead.
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Alan Nichol, Forbes.com, 24 June 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
Petrone has sometimes agreed, telling prosecutors to rephrase their question.
—Madeline Buckley, Chicago Tribune, 23 May 2025
To rephrase that, what we’ve been shown is a little bit of a charade.
—Callum Booth, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
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Alan Nichol, Forbes.com, 24 June 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
Petrone has sometimes agreed, telling prosecutors to rephrase their question.
—Madeline Buckley, Chicago Tribune, 23 May 2025
To rephrase that, what we’ve been shown is a little bit of a charade.
—Callum Booth, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rephrase
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Success depends on translating those requirements into a practical design and implementing them accurately and thoughtfully.—
Harikrishnan Muthukrishnan,
Forbes.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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Google Translate was used to translate the news release and Facebook post from the Regional Secretariat of the Ministry of Culture for Sardinia.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
5 Aug. 2025
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The Interconnected Causes Of Managerial Obsolescence To summarize, the principal interconnected reasons why firms and their managers are becoming obsolete are: Wrong mindset: making profits for themselves, not creating value for others.—
Steve Denning,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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The narrative might be summarized like this: supernatural Taylor Swift-type kills evil spirits while struggling with her own inner demons.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
8 Aug. 2025
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“Rephrase.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rephrase. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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