paraphrase

Example Sentences

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To paraphrase William Faulkner about the South, the past is never dead in Southern California — it isn’t even past.

From Los Angeles Times

But fundamentally, it’s a love story — boys meet boys, boys lose boys, boys get boys, to paraphrase the old Hollywood formula.

From Los Angeles Times

At one point during our dinner in 2019, he paraphrased Robert Oppenheimer, the leader of the Manhattan Project, who believed the atomic bomb was an inevitability of scientific progress.

From New York Times

And so people, to get stuff done, can paraphrase and say, well, there’s a code red, et cetera, but I did not issue code red.

From New York Times

To paraphrase Hegel, democracy isn’t supposed to have heroes because heroes appear only in its absence.

From Los Angeles Times