Sentence examples for changes in phrasing from inspiring English sources

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"You want to stand by your numbers, so I don't believe [the result is an outlier]." Michael Traugott, a professor at the department of political science at the University of Michigan, said that these kind of question-wording experiments to see how changes in phrasing affect attitudes were "not unusual".

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It should be noted, though, that significant changes in the phrasing of the questions from the pilot study do not allow direct comparison of the responses to the current larger-scale multi-state online survey.

Changes in question phrasing and sequencing were made based on pilot data and participant feedback.

In this phase, the interviewer carried out cognitive debriefing interviews in which the interviewees had the opportunity to suggest changes in words, phrases and expressions.

Be prepared for changes in how phrases are matched.

Examples include changes in word or phrase order, substitute phrasing, use of the closest available verbal tense, etc.

A few hours later, the Republican lawyers and their representatives called to object, despite the change in the phrasing.

But Chinese language scholars, while applauding the mayor's effort, said that the phrase he used (化悲憤為力量 in traditional Chinese characters) was actually not quite appropriate for the situation, a reflection of the complexities of Chinese, where a slight change in a phrase or idiom can result in a significant change in meaning.

Late in the play he allows a dreadful and shockingly vulgar change in the phrase "ipso facto".

Struck by the vowel change in the phrase "the man in the moon," he assembles (in another game) words or parts of words that resemble each other except for the middle vowel, and makes a song out of them.

By making subtle but noticeable changes in the rhythm or phrasing of a tune, modulating to another key, changing the melody itself or varying the instruments playing it, Tchaikovsky could keep a listener's interest from flagging.

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