Definition of "phrasing" []

• The act of making phrases. (noun)
• The manner in which an expression is phrased. (noun)
• Music The manner in which a phrase is rendered or interpreted. (noun)

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• "This phrasing is an explicit rejection of the older formulation, “life, liberty and property.”"
• "I agree with your argument, but this choice of phrasing is amusingly ironic."
• "Rubin's phrasing is in addition rather peculiar: "It is all very well ... to insist that it is the written-down story that should command our attention as readers"."