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

“Anything is possible,” says Anakin: he is paraphrasing Lucas, who once remarked that “It wasn’t until we created digital cinema that I could allow my imagination to run wild”.

From The Guardian • Nov. 22, 2015

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