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How to use the word paraphrase in a Sentence?

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To paraphrase from Michael's work -- Native people have been relegated to the sidekick, shaman, overly sexualized or super tracker characters, we are rarely the main character or the hero.

– Arigon Starr

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Not on my watch, i will never be in a situation where when someone comes for anyone that there will be no one left to speak for me because I did not speak up. That is a paraphrase of a poem that is on the walls of the United States Holocaust Museum.

– Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

An unexamined idea, to paraphrase Socrates, is not worth having and a society whose ideas are never explored for possible error may eventually find its foundations insecure.

– Mark van Doren

added by Normando
4 years ago

At its best drama delightfully informs.. This may be a paraphrase but I think it captures the essence of what he said; provided he did say it and I'm not imagining things.

– Kenneth Tynan

added by anonymous
4 years ago

To paraphrase a Danish proverb, it's dangerous to make seasonal tornado predictions, especially about the future.

– Patrick Marsh

Found on CNN
6 years ago

So, to paraphrase Ted Cruz.

– Coverage Gingrich

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

If you're bored, you're boring....get a life....try something new, take a class, be interesting. (This is not an exact quote but a paraphrase)

– Dr. Laura Schlessinger

added by anonymous
7 years ago

I paraphrase it as 'your money or your life,' but (I am) living proof that I would much rather have invested in myself, taken the time and grown my own life with all the mistakes and all the successes and everything else that I can say is mine as opposed to have a pile of money that essentially belonged to somebody else's success.

– Peter Buffett

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Silicon Valley provides a literal and metaphorical wealth of support for candidates. It's a community of people focused on the future, and of course, to paraphrase (bank robber) Willie Sutton, it's where the donors live.

– Dan Newman

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The public has turned sour on this plan but the governor, to paraphrase Admiral Farragut, has taken a position of 'damn the people, full speed ahead'.

– Kris Vosburgh

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

N.B. This quotation is a paraphrase of a much older quote by Aristotle, which see.

– Shaquille ONeal

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why' I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not'NB This quote is a paraphrase from a similar quote by G. B. Shaw.

– Robert Francis Kennedy

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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