How to Use rephrase in a Sentence

rephrase

verb
  • I don't understand what you're asking—could you rephrase your question?
  • To rephrase that, what we’ve been shown is a little bit of a charade.
    — Callum Booth, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
  • If users give feedback or rephrase their requests, the router learns.
    — Dan Fitzpatrick, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Frost subsequently asked for his words to be taken down, then rephrased his charge.
    — Emily Brooks, The Hill, 10 Sep. 2025
  • If visitors ask a question too off the wall, they are politely asked to rephrase.
    — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 1 Oct. 2020
  • They are supposed to be explored, discussed, challenged, rephrased, and re-asked.
    — Pia Lauritzen, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The general disinterest across age groups was the same even when the question was rephrased.
    — Roy Stephen Canivel, Footwear News, 8 June 2026
  • The title is a clue, rephrasing a Graham quote into the first-person plural.
    — Laura Regensdorf, Vogue, 31 Mar. 2026
  • As rephrased by the publication, looking great shouldn't be attached to a number.
    — Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 7 June 2023
  • Petrone has sometimes agreed, telling prosecutors to rephrase their question.
    — Madeline Buckley, Chicago Tribune, 23 May 2025
  • Gmail completes sentences, as Grammarly suggests how to rephrase a paragraph.
    — Hod Fleishman, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Prompt it to rephrase your work for a non-English speaker, or to recast it for someone without expertise.
    — Ann Kowal Smith, Forbes, 30 Mar. 2024
  • The key to handling objections is to rephrase them into questions that can help the customer make better decisions.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 28 June 2021
  • To get a sense that the question was understood, the person thinking about the question might rephrase the original question.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
  • She was later called out for impugning her Democratic colleagues and had to rephrase her criticism.
    — Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Chat Assist is in the Samsung Keyboard app and offers replies or can help rephrase a message to match certain tones.
    — Iyaz Akhtar, PCMAG, 10 Apr. 2024
  • When the reporter tried to rephrase the question, Saban established that his comprehension had not been the issue.
    — Matt Stahl | [email protected], al, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Let’s rephrase that, if only because 100 years ago, nobody had remembered to invent the Hall of Fame yet.
    — Jayson Stark, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Rephrase And Confirm Sometimes, the best way to ensure your message is received correctly is to rephrase it.
    — Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Sure, generative AI can rephrase your emails to sound like Jerry Seinfeld.
    — Reece Rogers, WIRED, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The October report will rephrase its telework questions to remove references to the pandemic.
    — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Small changes, like removing unnecessary fields, changing their order or rephrasing questions, can have a significant impact.
    — Amit Ashkenazi, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
  • At other times, Kaplan rephrased Cohen's questions to elicit more direct answers from Bankman-Fried.
    — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 31 Oct. 2023
  • At other times, Kaplan rephrased Cohen’s questions to elicit more direct answers from Bankman-Fried.
    — Tory Newmyer, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Greene refuses to answer the question until the American journalist rephrases it himself.
    — Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 27 Mar. 2025
  • This could include, for example, rephrasing sentences, incorporating synonyms or tweaking the creative’s call to action.
    — Rory Holland, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Without such a history, an LLM can only rephrase expressions of moral reasoning found in its training data.
    — Ted Chiang, The Atlantic, 3 June 2026
  • Students can paste text and use the summarize feature to condense lengthy readings or the paraphrase feature to rephrase complex academic language into more accessible terms.
    — Sarah Hernholm, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Since then, the Chamber has softened its rhetoric, in keeping with the conservative trend of rephrasing unpopular positions in the language of pluralism.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 26 Oct. 2023
  • In many cases, witnesses for the co-applicants would not give straight answers to commissioner questions, resulting in the same question being rephrased multiple times.
    — Ainsley Platt, arkansasonline.com, 5 Nov. 2024

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