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translation

noun

tran(t)s-ˈlā-shən

as in translating

an instance of expressing something in different words had to read Dante's Divine Comedy in translation since I don't know Italian

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Recent Examples of translation The new rules will also mandate translations at public conferences, and raise standards for how the language is taught in schools. —

Manal Albarakati, semafor.com, 1 June 2026 Microsoft’s x86-to-Arm code translation layer, codenamed Prism, has gotten better and faster. —

Andrew Cunningham, ArsTechnica, 1 June 2026 The novel, which takes the form of a fictional translation of a rediscovered Japanese travel memoir, explores history, power, class, colonialism and love through the lens of two women’s culinary tour across Japanese controlled Taiwan in the 1960s. —

Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 31 May 2026 How would people know that if it is lost in translation or frankly, not translated at all? —

Marshall Shepherd, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for translation

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translating

Noun

Writing and translating had become my only job.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 May 2026
For both captioning and translating, the Captify app records transcriptions of whatever runs through the glasses.

— Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 29 Apr. 2026