rephrasing

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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

Ukraine’s domestic intelligence agency, the Security Service of Ukraine, known by its Ukrainian acronym S.B.U., issued a statement rephrasing a stanza of a poem by Ukraine’s national poet, Taras Shevchenko.

From New York Times • Oct. 8, 2022

It is an engineering�s definition, a rephrasing of �efficiency�.

From Definition & Reality in the General Theory of Political Economy by Colignatus, Thomas