How to Use in translation in a Sentence
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Bachqi did his best to keep up in translation.
—Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2026
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Maybe that first part was lost in translation for the Frenchman.
—Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2024
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Gone are the days of scratchy speaker boxes where items got lost in translation.
—Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 20 Nov. 2024
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So before getting to the quotes, there is a chance that there may be some things that are lost in translation.
—Mike Stubbs, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2024
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Well, nothing lost in translation there.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2025
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But perhaps the key to not losing much in translation is not having much to lose in the first place.
—Jessica Kiang, Variety, 19 Sep. 2025
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So a lot of messages get lost in translation between the platforms.
—WIRED, 23 Oct. 2022
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Two friends going through the same thing at the same time are bound to be closer, and words will get lost in translation.
—David Oliver, USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2025
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And as in the film – how much actually gets lost in translation?
—Annika Pham, Variety, 13 Nov. 2025
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This point is very important but often gets lost in translation.
—Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
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Remarkably, for all its growth, nothing has been lost in translation.
—Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 11 May 2026
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Are things really getting lost in translation at this point?
—Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 14 Dec. 2025
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But something had gotten lost in translation.
—Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
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What was absent in the original that could be found only in translation?
—Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
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Kawakami’s work, at least in translation, does not have much to offer on a sentence level.
—Literary Hub, 19 Mar. 2026
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This is not the case, revealing that the role of the monarch in Britain is being lost in translation.
—Kamal Ahmed, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2026
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Skip the taste of three signature tacos with beef, pork and chicken, a super salty mess that gets lost in translation.
—Louisa Kung Liu Chu, Chicago Tribune, 7 May 2024
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But something was often lost in translation, or adaptation, from page to screen.
—Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 14 July 2023
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But the flavor, the gusto, of the endeavor gets lost in translation.
—Todd Pitock, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2022
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Nothing could be lost in translation because there was nothing to translate.
—Gabriel Rom, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2022
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And this kind of goes back to the language part—having proper words to describe what gets lost in translation around the world.
—Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 13 Mar. 2025
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Projects get lost in translation and decision-making slows.
—Hope Horner, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
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Jaguar is attempting to speak a new language of luxury but it got lost in translation.
—Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
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This is her first audiobook, both in English and in translation.
—Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2024
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The dogs wore matching big sister bandanas in case something somehow got lost in translation.
—Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 7 Feb. 2026
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In the United States, about 3% of all books published are works in translation.
—Emily Burack, Town & Country, 23 Feb. 2022
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Akin to being lost in translation, the model chose slightly wrong numbers, which produced word sequences that made no sense.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
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When a 10-year-old boy who loves something more than life itself can’t wait to get out there and do it, things lose meaning in translation.
—Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Sep. 2022
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That the former is essential to making the latter better is either lost in translation or falls on deaf ears.
—James Horncastle, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024
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Yet today, this more complex understanding has been lost in translation.
—Lauren Buitta, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
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