- present participle of phrase.
phrasing
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The actual phrasing he used was far ruder than that – but you get the drift.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Patel’s style has been built around dark insinuation, and in this case his phrasing was official enough to seem consequential, yet vague enough to be exploited.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026
Ms. Musgraves has a limited voice in terms of technical ability, but she’s good at calibrating her phrasing to match a song’s mood.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026
That change in phrasing matches exactly what Deutsche Bank’s strategist Steven Zeng predicts.
From Barron's ● May 4, 2026
The latter phrasing, while less misleading, is also less impressive, which explains why it isn’t used.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
Sometimes Auster strains too hard to make his prose appear original; at other junctures he settles for hackneyed phrasings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2023
They captured the unique phrasings of drivers of the capital’s private minibuses — which once constituted a hefty fraction of Kyiv transport, but began to fade in the era of Uber — hawking their destinations.
From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2023
The version channeling comedian Jerry Seinfeld captured his signature phrasings.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 6, 2023
The version channeling comedian Jerry Seinfeld captured his verbal mannerisms and signature phrasings.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 6, 2023
In these instances, I believe that her actions speak even louder than whatever words she might have said, so I have filled in some cracks in the research with my own phrasings.
From "Fannie Never Flinched" by Mary Cronk Farrell
