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The transcript of that airport interaction, shared by the court after Mr. Djokovic’s release, proved even more revealing than what the judge had paraphrased.

From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2022

Mr Charles said somebody had "paraphrased" his statement when it was written up.

From BBC • Nov. 3, 2014

Whether he knew it or not, he had paraphrased Aristotle's doctrine of tragic catharsis: we are purged and exalted by watching someone else's mental distress and physical torment.

From The Guardian • Jul. 17, 2010

Kaufman noted that Editor Victor Navasky of the Nation had paraphrased most of what Ford wrote.

From Time Magazine Archive

I could not help wondering how the verbose and pompous major had paraphrased and condensed that inchoate mass of biography and reminiscence into an orderly account for his wife and niece.

From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 by Various