paraphrasing
- present participle of paraphrase.
Example Sentences
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These are demanding novels, resistant to paraphrasing, structurally and linguistically challenging.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
“The reason why you guys are getting this many years,” and this is me paraphrasing, “It’s because we’re trying to make an example.”
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 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
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
