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He told BBC Verify he was "paraphrasing what I thought that meant to them", when he gave his Radio 4 interview.

From BBC • Jan. 9, 2025

The line is such common wisdom that even its originator was paraphrasing it from some uncited source.

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2021

Like a middle school student copying from an encyclopedia entry, the Times was paraphrasing and padding its source text into something that sounded broadly informed.

From Slate • Apr. 21, 2020

He later conceded that he should have said that he was "paraphrasing" Kinnock at the time he said those remarks.

From Fox News • Jan. 30, 2020

This almost makes one think that the good Bishop was paraphrasing and reversing Voltaire's remark, "When a woman no longer finds herself acceptable to man she turns to God."

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