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Heard Farrah praise Spooner's rewording (10)

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paraphrase

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'rewording' is the definition.
(I know that paraphrase is a type of rewording)

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(Other definitions for paraphrase that I've seen before include "rewording" , "get across another way" , "free rendering" , "Put in other words" , "express words differently" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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