paraphrase

It’s a subject I wish I could leave but — to paraphrase Michael Corleone — it keeps pulling me back in.

To paraphrase, we can’t sit down because we find it is kind of hard.

To paraphrase Jimmy Carter, they were doing what they could with what they had for as long as they could.

He told BBC Verify he was "paraphrasing what I thought that meant to them", when he gave his Radio 4 interview.

Myriad are the ways we seek to paraphrase art into digestible meaning.