Sentence examples for Paraphrasing from inspiring English sources

The word 'Paraphrasing' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to the process of expressing the meaning of a statement in your own words. For example, you might say, "I need to make sure I'm accurately paraphrasing what the professor said in class."

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Paraphrasing

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Present participle of paraphrase

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Anyway, a woman stood up and said (I'm paraphrasing): "My sister lives in Sheffield.

Instead of a flurry of excuses from said parent and a hasty deposition of the phone, the parent responded (and I am paraphrasing): "If you spent more time getting a facelift and less time bothering people like me, then you'd be a great deal more effective as a teacher".

He was paraphrasing a remark by Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès, a delegate to the Estates-General of 1789, who said the third estate is everything, has nothing but wants to be something.

Mr Sandel listens to each answer carefully, sometimes repeating them verbatim and then paraphrasing.

Chris Blattman, a development economist, wrote that Mr Brooks's prescription "makes me uncomfortable", paraphrasing:We've spent five decades learning that everything we thought would work in aid did not.

That, paraphrasing him very politely, is what Mike Huckabee, the former Republican governor of Arkansas, demanded to know on his radio chat show earlier this week.

Mr Verrilli parried by paraphrasing another Federalist paper where James Madison registered a worry that Congress might "drain authority and energy from the executive" if presidents are not "fortified" against encroachments from the legislative branch.

Mohan Bhagwat, its current leader, is somewhat in the mould of Savarkar, paraphrasing his beliefs and promoting Hindutva.

"When you make peaceful change impossible, you make violent change inevitable," says Abdel Fatau Musah of the Economic Community of West African States, paraphrasing President Kennedy's words.

As PJ O'Rourke noted in "Holidays in Hell", (I'm paraphrasing) places like the south are less livable when they were created by people who went there to create wealth instead of civilization.Greg Kushmerek.

We now live in the shadow of a regime that is martial in its head, repressive in its arms, civilian in its skin, granting freedom only to those who applaud it".Karl Sharro, a Lebanese-Iraqi architect living in London whose whimsical satires have a wide internet following, tried a lighter approach, paraphrasing Woody Allen.

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