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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 Obviously, as a mouse study, translation to human subjects is not guaranteed. New Atlas, 11 Sep. 2025 Perhaps most notably, Apple added live translation. Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 11 Sep. 2025 Live translation, Apple Intelligence What is exciting, at least for some, is the ability to do live translation on phone calls. Larry Magid, Mercury News, 11 Sep. 2025 Copyright © 2025 by Natsuo Kirino, translation copyright © 2025 translated by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda. Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for translation

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“Translation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/translation. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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