paraphrase
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In striving for competitive advantage, recognize that, to paraphrase the Red Queen from Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking-Glass,” it may take you all the running to just stay in the same place.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
To paraphrase Eric Cantona, you can change most things in life but never your football team.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
To paraphrase the Diana Ross hit of the time, did we know where we were going to?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
When looking at the stock market right now, the increasingly obvious question is to paraphrase that catchy 1940s tune: “Is you is, or is you ain’t, in a bubble?”
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
To paraphrase Nietzsche, there are two types of Greek: the Apollonian and the Dionysian.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
Playing a standard tune, he would frequently develop paraphrases of the melody, taking it through unlikely re-imagining of the harmonies of a song.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026
Early in the book, Justice Kennedy paraphrases long conversations with family, friends and mentors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
The extent of duplication varies between passages, but all contain multiple identical phrases, as well as clear paraphrases and significant structural similarity.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 9, 2024
Numa dies clutching a piece of paper that paraphrases John 15:13 in the Bible: “No hay amor más grande que el que de la vida por sus amigos.”
From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2024
His works consist of sermons, poetical paraphrases and gospel sonnets.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various
As paraphrased by Vogue, Anastasia says the tins are “all about reinventing the ordinary” into “something special and bespoke.”
From Salon ● May 17, 2026
When the conversation turned to his legacy, Powell paraphrased the opening of Frank Sinatra’s My Way.
From Barron's ● Mar. 30, 2026
In the latter portions of the book, though, paraphrased conversations raise real questions—especially his conversations with Scalia, whom he recalls as a great friend, which is no doubt true.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
In his daily conference call on Monday with journalists, Peskov claimed some of what was said in the NBC interview was "paraphrased."
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2025
She quoted Frost; she misquoted Stevens; she paraphrased Rilke's description of love.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
These are demanding novels, resistant to paraphrasing, structurally and linguistically challenging.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
“They said they would come,” Enguidanos said, paraphrasing a typical response, “and they just didn’t show up.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2026
In the proffer, Blanche essentially asked her, and I’m paraphrasing, Why don’t you explain that to me?
From Slate ● Nov. 24, 2025
He told BBC Verify he was "paraphrasing what I thought that meant to them", when he gave his Radio 4 interview.
From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2025
“Well, this is good news,” he says, and offers what I think is a bible quote, or at least a paraphrasing.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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