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

Or, as he rephrases the question: “I mean, why doesn’t it violate the Constitution to hold a person in prison for 20 years, for conduct which the Constitution forbids making criminal?”

From Slate • Oct. 13, 2015

Even when Charlie quotes from court transcripts, he interrupts, rephrases and edits in order to show us more clearly what he wants to say.

From The Guardian • Apr. 27, 2013

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

Aquinas rephrases the definition as "Motus est actus existentis in potentia secundum quod huius modi."

From The Natural Philosophy of William Gilbert and His Predecessors by King, W. James