is paraphrasing
- present progressive of paraphrase (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Presumably GPT-3 is paraphrasing some version of the ‘‘joke’’ it begins with — which most likely exists out there on the internet in some closely related form.
From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2022
He is paraphrasing the explosive testimony of the former FBI director, James Comey, about President Donald Trump.
From Economist ● Jun. 15, 2017
“It would have been wrong to divert from it. My wife put it beautifully. She said, and this is paraphrasing Yeats, ‘Tread softly because you tread on his nightmares.’”
From The Guardian ● Oct. 21, 2014
But because H.P. is apparently run by arrogant sadists — the Haggler is paraphrasing here — this led only to more hassle and more delay.
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2012
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
