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I can't remember her exact words, but I can paraphrase what she said.paraphrase = express in different words
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Her words were too perfect to paraphrase, so I will quote.
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The italics used on this page indicate that the language from the referenced email is paraphrased, not directly quoted. (source)paraphrased = expressing the same message in different words
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But then again, to paraphrase Boris, maybe I see a pattern because it's there. (source)paraphrase = quote in different words
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So I'll paraphrase it for you: Me: "This is obviously a clog." (source)paraphrase = say it with different words
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Thomas had talked of resigning, until Washington sent an urgent plea in which, paraphrasing a line from his favorite play Cato, he said that in such a cause as they were engaged, "surely every post ought to be deemed honorable in which a man can serve his country." (source)paraphrasing = quoted in slightly different words
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They didn't have someone like my dad to provide them with factoids about every movie playing on cable, or my mom to paraphrase entire life biographies of Hollywood's most awarded and acclaimed actors. (source)paraphrase = express in hew own words
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"I'm paraphrasing," he said easily, flipping his hand. (source)paraphrasing = quoting, but without using the exact words
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1958 is a close year"), poems and literary quotations ("No man is an island, Entire of itself), and passages for newspapers and books paraphrased or quoted.† (source)
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Or, as Steiner paraphrases Emmon Bach: These deep structures eventually lead to the actual patterning of the cortex with its immensely ramifIed yet, at the same time, 'programmed' network of electrochemical and neurophysiological channels.† (source)
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"Remember, there are plenty of fish in the barn," he added in a rather unusual paraphrase of Cesar's advice. (source)paraphrase = quote a sentiment, but not with the exact words
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I'm paraphrasing, of course," I say.† (source)
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She quoted Frost; she misquoted Stevens; she paraphrased Rilke's description of love.† (source)
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I'd come with my notebooks ready to answer his questions with quotations and paraphrases.† (source)
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He was the only person she ever knew who could paraphrase three authors into one sentence and have them all make sense. (source)paraphrase = express in different words
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He smiles, paraphrasing the punch line from the old joke about the kid who went through his entire life without uttering a word.† (source)
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