The phrase "alternative phrasing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing different ways to express the same idea or concept.
Example: "If you're looking for a clearer way to say that, consider using alternative phrasing to convey your message more effectively."
Alternatives: "different wording" or "varied expression".
One alternative phrase Benn might coin to replace "war on terror" therefore could be "peace-making on the various problems part of whose outcome is terrorism".
The word, not yet in the major dictionaries, has a built-in raised eyebrow that its alternative phrase, "the world's only remaining superpower," just cannot manage.
It's an old practice: We've been using euphemisms and alternative phrases since the days of Cicero in Rome.
The additional expressions -- God made the firmament -- God made the beast of the earth, &c., occur subordinately, and only in a few instances; they do not necessarily convey a different idea of the mode of creation, and indeed only appear as alternative phrases, in the usual duplicative manner of Eastern narrative.
We are unaware of efforts to test this or other alternative phrases.
Where difficulties finding the correct wording for items were found alternative phrases were sent for consideration by the lay panels.
The more comprehensive system captures and transcribes speech and stores alternative phrase interpretations in an XML-based format used by a text-engineering framework.
Others disliked these alternative phrases as they felt having asthma necessarily meant you had 'trouble breathing,' whereas 'shortness of breath' occurred on isolated occasions.
Preskorn (2005) recommends the alternative phrase 'multiple medication use.' However, Preskorn's phrase has a neutral connotation because concomitant use of multiple drugs is often supported by evidence-based guidelines for various disease states (Preskorn 2005).
