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Example sentences for: paraphrase

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To paraphrase Pink Floyd (or was it Catullus?)
What I am getting at, to paraphrase the infinite wisdom of Pigs is pigs , is that shit is shit , and there is nothing dysphemistic about it (unless used “in talking about one's opponents”)--that is, it is the context that determines whether it is dysphemistic, which is again dependent on whether it was the intention of the speaker to use a taboo word in place of socially acceptable one.
The “stetson” version was a joking paraphrase.
I guess I'm satisfied that writing is good for you, won't cure a thing, and anyway, writers seem not to have a choice in the matter: To paraphrase the words of Gene Kelly, we just gotta write, gotta write ...
To paraphrase the German proverb: it's the stress that makes the meaning.