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But wars are also projections beyond the border of political contests at home, to rephrase the great Clausewitz.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026

"No, I'll rephrase that. For the normal man. But the reason he has accomplished what he's accomplished, and the reason he's done what he's done, is because he's not a normal man."

From BBC ● May 21, 2026

It’s surprisingly challenging to definitively answer this question, as we’ll see, so let’s slightly rephrase: How many naked-eye stars host planets that we know about?

From Scientific American ● Oct. 6, 2023

Cybil admits she didn't think she was qualified – or to rephrase, was untested.

From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2023

“Let me rephrase that. You look like you’re having a hard time focusing on your schoolwork today, Bat.”

From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold

Or, as he rephrases the question: “I mean, why doesn’t it violate the Constitution to hold a person in prison for 20 years, for conduct which the Constitution forbids making criminal?”

From Slate ● Oct. 13, 2015

Even when Charlie quotes from court transcripts, he interrupts, rephrases and edits in order to show us more clearly what he wants to say.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 27, 2013

Not even Pinocchio’s dullest young reader will fail to miss Collodi’s message, since he rephrases it in one way or another in nearly every chapter.

From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2011

It’s the way he takes other sources and purposefully either omits credit or rephrases the information so that his audience will likely infer it’s his own work.

From Newsweek

An old friend learns shocking things about the title figure after his death, and the author skillfully rephrases an old truth-that most people know of others only what it is comfortable to know.

From Time Magazine Archive

Cofnas reproduced several tracts of Arday's PhD dissertation which he said the software had found to be copied verbatim or lightly rephrased from prior academic works by other authors.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

Augustin cited research that documented a pattern in which chatbots rephrased and extrapolated what people shared, and told them they’re unique and that their thoughts have great implications.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026

On a wider platform like Netflix, foreign films and series can vary as to whether they are translated, left alone or rephrased.

From New York Times ● Aug. 26, 2022

Shocking many legal analysts, the court rephrased it entirely to something far more vague — and which will have no clear impact on prosecutions.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 31, 2021

We can readily understand Michelangelo’s discomfort, for Titian has rephrased his sculpture in utterly sensuous terms through the painterly application of sonorous color that is characteristic of his work.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson

By rephrasing melodies, throwing in slang, using nonsense syllables, embracing scatting, and making it seem as if he was speaking directly to you, he changed the way people sang and thought about vocal performances.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 2026

Wallace tried rephrasing the question by asking if Driver ever thought his career would be easier if he looked like Robert Redford.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2023

Information-rich resources like newspapers and discussion boards might find that these systems are harvesting their material and rephrasing it so eloquently that nobody ever bothers to navigate to the original page.

From Slate ● Mar. 1, 2023

Mr Wiseman admitted some of the amendments, which included rephrasing statements and deleting or adding text and pictures, would have made a difference to the pupils' marks and grades.

From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2021

But, even allowing for that, it is a rephrasing rather than a translation.

From An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway by Martin Brown Ruud