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an instance of expressing something in different words
your essays on human rights should have some original thought and not be simply a paraphrase of what's in the textbook
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as in to translate
to express something (as a text or statement) in different words
could you paraphrase your diagnosis of my medical condition, using simpler language?
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Recent Examples of paraphrase
Isabel Fraser, WIRED, 18 July 2024
That’s a gentle paraphrase of what was in this viewer’s letter.
—James Barron, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2024
David Browne, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2024
To paraphrase a song by some musicians who also formed a company called Apple, the crew at Cupertino was always waiting for this moment to arise.
—Steven Levy, WIRED, 6 Dec. 2024
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Noun
What sets Grok apart from its competitors is its real-time access to X data, which the chatbot paraphrases and directly surfaces in a carousel interface.
—Isabel Fraser, WIRED, 18 July 2024
That’s a gentle paraphrase of what was in this viewer’s letter.
—James Barron, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2024
Verb
But at least in pop culture, to paraphrase another song from that era, the new Village nostalgia tries to get back to where our focus once belonged.
—David Browne, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2024
To paraphrase a song by some musicians who also formed a company called Apple, the crew at Cupertino was always waiting for this moment to arise.
—Steven Levy, WIRED, 6 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for paraphrase
Noun
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Rather than deal with subtitles or translations, the characters use accents when speaking English in the play but then remove them when speaking Farsi, thus replicating the experience of non-native speakers from the audience’s perspective.—
Chris Jones,
New York Daily News,
24 Jan. 2025
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Questions included asking for a translation for a Palmyrene script, and hummingbird anatomy.—
Britney Nguyen,
Quartz,
23 Jan. 2025
Verb
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An online translating program can only be as good at translating as humans are at communicating in the first place.—
Joshua Rapp Learn,
Discover Magazine,
23 Jan. 2025
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Employers want to know how your experience translates to results.—
Sho Dewan,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Other news organizations such as the New York Times and Sky News had stories incorrectly summarized.—
David Phelan,
Forbes,
18 Jan. 2025
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This content was summarized by generative artificial intelligence using public filings retrieved from SEC.gov.—
Quartz Bot,
Quartz,
17 Jan. 2025
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“Paraphrase.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paraphrase. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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