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- verb Present participle of
paraphrase .
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Examples
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"Legion," in referring to this despatch, charges His Excellency with what he calls paraphrasing, or, in other words, misrepresentation, as no men in their senses could have made such demands as the late Council are stated to have urged.
The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada Egerton Ryerson 1842
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The fact that he ended up at a reasonable statement shows that he knows his paraphrasing is incorrect and his succinct version borders on dishonest.
Crossroads 2009
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(That paraphrasing is not an exaggeration; check it out for yourself at the recent post of mine that got this started here … St. Louis to Chicago: Putting a 55 M.P.H. Drive to the Weekend Road Trip Test.)
‘Commie’ Green Blogger’s 55 MPH Drive Instantly Enacts Crushing Law Upon Others 2008
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This is a guy who is literally a rocket scientist as his day job, studiously avoids anything that seems like wishful thinking, and is far more precise with his words than I have been in paraphrasing them here.
Sound Politics: Rush Holt should have spoken up two years ago 2006
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And paraphrasing from a rustic hunter, "Cheney didn't do nothin 'wrong, it should always be open season on lawyers."
Cheney -- Champion of the Common Man Richard Nokes 2006
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BTW its called paraphrasing which liberals do quite often.
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Anyway, I was laughing so hard, I think I get where Nikki was saying that some people just get him, and some don’t. (that’s paraphrasing from the online ustream).
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Even in paraphrasing Marcotte, he’s put in enough hedge to keep a gardener busy for days.
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We will be closer to the "Singapore problem" in which students score high on tests but in whom creativity is stamped out, closer to what Robert Sternberg called paraphrasing a perfect means to eliminate creativity in schools.
The Latest Untested Solution: National Testing Jim Horn 2009
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We will be closer to the "Singapore problem" in which students score high on tests but in whom creativity is stamped out, closer to what Robert Sternberg called paraphrasing a perfect means to eliminate creativity in schools.
Archive 2009-04-01 Jim Horn 2009
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