paraphrasing

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“There’s nobody who’s happy in all things,” according to Nicostratus, paraphrasing Euripides.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 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

Hoffman, paraphrasing her state of mind in Providence, writes, “During this time Aimee described herself as profoundly lonely, the emotion coming over her in those days like a ‘terrifying grip.’”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 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

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