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Example sentences for: paraphrase

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I wonder now if his problem isn't that he realizes he can't be and so--to paraphrase Baldwin's famous, if apocryphal, observation--this son must kill his father.
This reassurance--that somehow things will be all right, that there is a lot of ruin in a man, as well as in a nation, to paraphrase his idol, Adam Smith--has become part of me, and I can still summon it up when I am terrified because of a huge quarterly tax payment due or a bad day on the market.
To paraphrase Dr. Johnson, there is nothing like the loss of money to concentrate the mind.
) To paraphrase The X-Files, the truth is somewhere in between there.
The following consists of two lists, the first a supplementary glossary to that published in Colonial American English; the second a list of words and phrases he has uncovered but which, owing to lack of context or paraphrase, he has been unable to define.