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to express something (as a text or statement) in different words
I don't understand what you're asking—could you rephrase your question?
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Recent Examples of rephrase
Without such a history, an LLM can only rephrase expressions of moral reasoning found in its training data.
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Ted Chiang,
The Atlantic,
3 June 2026
Or to rephrase the question, can the guardians of English football really afford to do nothing when the number of SCA deaths is so startling and in many cases, Adam included, there is overwhelming evidence that a young person’s life could have been saved?
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Daniel Taylor,
New York Times,
31 Mar. 2026
If users give feedback or rephrase their requests, the router learns.
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Dan Fitzpatrick,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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Ted Chiang,
The Atlantic,
3 June 2026
Or to rephrase the question, can the guardians of English football really afford to do nothing when the number of SCA deaths is so startling and in many cases, Adam included, there is overwhelming evidence that a young person’s life could have been saved?
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Daniel Taylor,
New York Times,
31 Mar. 2026
If users give feedback or rephrase their requests, the router learns.
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Dan Fitzpatrick,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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Each extra year of training, for example, translates to $143,000 in additional annual income.
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The Fourth of July Celebrates a Lawyers' Revolution argued that the Declaration represented lawyers translating political protest into legal argument.
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Large language models can summarize sentiment, identify recurring themes and use guest feedback to shape recommendations.
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Why Lawrence, Kansas ranks high The article goes into the history of Lawrence, summarizing the establishment of the town by abolitionists, political violence, and being a stop for the Underground Railroad.
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“Rephrase.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rephrase. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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