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paraphrase

noun as in translation, interpretation

verb as in interpret, translate

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To paraphrase, it isn’t about getting knocked down, it’s about getting back up.

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To paraphrase Frederick Douglass, power concedes nothing without a demand.

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Early in the book, Justice Kennedy paraphrases long conversations with family, friends and mentors.

The rich, to paraphrase F. Scott Fitzgerald, are different.

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But is this theatrical release really gonna be golden, to paraphrase one of the musical’s most infectious earworms?

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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