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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 Among the initiatives are a new online reservation system, to lessen the oftentimes hourslong wait to get into the basilica, and simultaneous translations for Masses in up to 60 languages. —

ABC News, 16 Feb. 2026 For those who don’t, AirPods offer live translation – and Google Translate can fill in gaps, too. —

Brittany Luse, NPR, 16 Feb. 2026 The book was a worldwide hit in the late 1990s and has been published in some 30 translations, including in Arabic, Chinese, and Bengali. —

Josef Joffe, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2026 Our translations ask readers to suspend the assumption that the United States, Israel, or the Soviet Union offered salvation to Jews in the postwar world. —

Literary Hub, 13 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for translation

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But the oral histories Katherine conducted, interviewing elderly islanders, with Tepano translating, may have been more valuable still.

— Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
Stephen and Marissa, with assists from many other Register staffers, have already gotten the translating started.

— Rachel E. Stassen-Berger, Des Moines Register, 8 Jan. 2026