paraphrasing

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Sayers praised the art underlying the artifice, paraphrasing Aristotle on the practice of literary deception.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 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

“All it takes for bad stuff to keep happening is for good people to do nothing,” she said, paraphrasing Abraham Lincoln.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2024

Bacon writes of ‘the law of nature and the mutual contracts of things’: he is paraphrasing Lucretius.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton