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paraphrase

noun as in translation, interpretation

verb as in interpret, translate

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

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

To paraphrase the old adage, you can put lipstick on the Dodgers — for example, so and so is coming back ... or recovering.

Or, to paraphrase a Virginia Woolf line from “To the Lighthouse” that Rhys invoked earlier: What gets us through are “little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.”

To paraphrase an old saying, Swiatek and Sabalenka appear to have decided it is better to keep your rivals even closer than your friends.

From BBC

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

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