Restate
verb
To say something again or differently.
Please could you restate your question?
Often appears as...
- restate the question
- restate the problem
verb
To say something again or differently.
Please could you restate your question?
Often appears as...
- restate the question
- restate the problem
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Clarify Meaning
Use 'restate' to make your point clearer if someone didn't understand you the first time.
I see you're confused. Let me restate my point more simply.
Pro Tip 2/3Avoid Repetition
'Restate' is more than just repeating; it's about saying something in a new way.
He restated the instructions using different words to avoid repetition.
Pro Tip 3/3Emphasize Point
You can 'restate' to emphasize your message in a discussion or argument.
To emphasize her point, she restated her main argument after presenting her evidence.
Pro Tip 1/3Clarify Meaning
Use 'restate' to make your point clearer if someone didn't understand you the first time.
I see you're confused. Let me restate my point more simply.
Pro Tip 2/3Avoid Repetition
'Restate' is more than just repeating; it's about saying something in a new way.
He restated the instructions using different words to avoid repetition.
Pro Tip 3/3Emphasize Point
You can 'restate' to emphasize your message in a discussion or argument.
To emphasize her point, she restated her main argument after presenting her evidence.
Pro Tip 1/3Clarify Meaning
Use 'restate' to make your point clearer if someone didn't understand you the first time.
I see you're confused. Let me restate my point more simply.
Pro Tip 2/3Avoid Repetition
'Restate' is more than just repeating; it's about saying something in a new way.
He restated the instructions using different words to avoid repetition.
Pro Tip 3/3Emphasize Point
You can 'restate' to emphasize your message in a discussion or argument.
To emphasize her point, she restated her main argument after presenting her evidence.
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Video examples
Philip Rosedale: Second...
Yeah, so let me restate that. So, you're saying that in the pamphlet there's a statement that we may come to prefer our digital selves to our real ones -- our more malleable or manageable digital identities to our real identities -- and that in fact, much of human life and human experience may move into the digital realm.
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Philip Rosedale: Second...
Yeah, so let me restate that. So, you're saying that in the pamphlet there's a statement that we may come to prefer our digital selves to our real ones -- our more malleable or manageable digital identities to our real identities -- and that in fact, much of human life and human experience may move into the digital realm.
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Quote examples
Carly Fiorina
American Businesswoman
When it turns out that you were supposed to be disclosing all these foreign government donations to the Clinton Global Initiative while you were Secretary of State, and you didn't, and now the Clinton Global Initiative is having to restate their 990s, that doesn't sound very trustworthy to me.
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Mitch McConnell
American Politician
Syria and Iran have always had a pretty tight relationship, and it looks to me like they just cooked up a press release to put out to sort of restate the obvious. They're both problem countries; we know that. And this doesn't change anything.
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Bruce Catton
American Historian
I think I was always subconsciously driven by an attempt to restate that faith and to show where it was properly grounded, how it grew out of what a great many young men on both sides felt and believed and were brave enough to do.
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Eavan Boland
Irish Poet
There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.
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Dwight Yoakam
American Musician
Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself. And so I make reference to and acknowledge things that I feel have been dismissed, trying to restate those musical and cultural elements clearly and vehemently.
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Edward Albee
American Dramatist
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.
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Arundhati Roy
Indian Novelist
There can be nothing more humiliating for a writer of fiction to have to do than restate a case that has already been made.
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Allen Tate
American Poet
We know the particular poem, not what it says that we can restate.
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Carly Fiorina
American Businesswoman
When it turns out that you were supposed to be disclosing all these foreign government donations to the Clinton Global Initiative while you were Secretary of State, and you didn't, and now the Clinton Global Initiative is having to restate their 990s, that doesn't sound very trustworthy to me.
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Mitch McConnell
American Politician
Syria and Iran have always had a pretty tight relationship, and it looks to me like they just cooked up a press release to put out to sort of restate the obvious. They're both problem countries; we know that. And this doesn't change anything.
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Bruce Catton
American Historian
I think I was always subconsciously driven by an attempt to restate that faith and to show where it was properly grounded, how it grew out of what a great many young men on both sides felt and believed and were brave enough to do.
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Eavan Boland
Irish Poet
There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.
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Dwight Yoakam
American Musician
Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself. And so I make reference to and acknowledge things that I feel have been dismissed, trying to restate those musical and cultural elements clearly and vehemently.
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Edward Albee
American Dramatist
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.
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Arundhati Roy
Indian Novelist
There can be nothing more humiliating for a writer of fiction to have to do than restate a case that has already been made.
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Allen Tate
American Poet
We know the particular poem, not what it says that we can restate.
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