rephrase
verb (used with object)
to phrase again or differently.
rephrases
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present tense formof rephrase (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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In the next response, Waters essentially rephrases her answer in response to a similar question, but includes the “confrontational” remark.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2021
Not even Pinocchio’s dullest young reader will fail to miss Collodi’s message, since he rephrases it in one way or another in nearly every chapter.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2011
It also, perhaps, rephrases the question of what defines a national theatre: suggesting that its job is to travel out into the nation rather than hoping the nation will gladly troop to its door.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 2, 2011
It’s the way he takes other sources and purposefully either omits credit or rephrases the information so that his audience will likely infer it’s his own work.
From Newsweek
An old friend learns shocking things about the title figure after his death, and the author skillfully rephrases an old truth-that most people know of others only what it is comfortable to know.
From Time Magazine Archive
