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She was responding to a Los Angeles Times reporter asking if there was anything she said in the 2021 documentary “Wendy Williams: What a Mess!” that she wished she could have rephrased.

From Salon • Feb. 23, 2024

But that phrase is virtually incomprehensible, so we should have rephrased — perhaps “to help the campaign against the immigration overhaul.”

From New York Times • Dec. 23, 2014

IS the way generations of stock-market traders have rephrased the proverb, What goes up must come down.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ullman supplies no answer, but no other actress could have rephrased the question so well.

From Time Magazine Archive

The railroad men have rephrased the law thus: "All that the traffic will bear."

From The Next Step A Plan for Economic World Federation by Nearing, Scott