paraphrase

IPA: pˈɛrʌfreɪz

A restatement of a text in different words, often to clarify meaning.
(Scotland) One of a certain number of Scripture passages turned into verse for use in the service of praise.

(transitive, intransitive) To restate something as, or to compose a paraphrase. To repeat a written or spoken phrase/quote using different words, often in a simpler and shorter form, or sometimes in a humorous context.

Examples of "paraphrase" in Sentences

After all, to again paraphrase Reese in “Terminator”:
As I said, my paraphrase is "predicting the future is hard." morning
* That quote was a paraphrase from a graduate level textbook on evolutionary biology!
JJS: That quote was a paraphrase from a graduate level textbook on evolutionary biology!
A better paraphrase is "We can imagine it, therefore it's not necesary to infer an unimaginable agency."
To paraphrase from the line in All About Eve, when exactly does the piano begin thinking it wrote the sonata?
As Hannah Arendt said of Eichmann at Jerusalem (in paraphrase): she was astounded at his inability to see his own crimes for what they were, to follow a simple syllogism.
The Ben Franklin paraphrase is particularly apt — the biggest source of trouble in today’s legal system is the tendency of judges to become convinced of their infallibility.
And if you choose to paraphrase and not even link, and I have to look up the text myself, and your paraphrase is not accurate, it is my job to embarrass you by pointing thatout.