Sample Sentences for
paraphrase
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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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    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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    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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    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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    She quoted Frost; she misquoted Stevens; she paraphrased Rilke's description of love.†  (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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    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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    Neither of the nuns was looking at the other but at their crucifixes, and suddenly I laughed and a verse I'd heard long ago at the Golden Day paraphrased itself in my mind: Bread and Wine, Bread and Wine, Your cross ain't nearly so Heavy as mine ...And the nuns rode on with lowered heads.†  (source)
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    The style in which it was written was that curious jewelled style, vivid and obscure at once, full of argot and of archaisms, of technical expressions and of elaborate paraphrases, that characterises the work of some of the finest artists of the French school of Symbolistes.†  (source)
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    O.C. Bible: a paraphrase with identical meaning.†  (source)
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    This security measure erased both the agent's handwriting and, by the paraphrasing automatic to translation, any personal peculiarities of his language.†  (source)
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