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translation

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tran(t)s-ˈlā-shən

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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 This lucid translation makes no apologies for preserving Homer’s (to us) nonidiomatic constructions. — The Week Us, TheWeek, 3 Nov. 2026 Other examples include an app for rural schools without internet in Chile; a medical triage chatbot for rural patients in India, and translation models for African languages that run on basic phones. — IEEE Spectrum, 3 Nov. 2026 In 1709, the French scholar Antoine Galland was attempting to add a new volume to his wildly popular translation of One Thousand and One Nights, the first edition of its kind for a European audience. — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Nov. 2026 Other translation projects include Michel Gondry’s The Book of Solutions, Judo thriller Tatami, South Korean title Smugglers, Stéphan Castang’s Vincent Must Die, and Berlin Film Festival opener The Light. — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for translation

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But Fehlbaum warns writers and directors of the dangers of rushing to technology, especially AI, to take on the task of translating.

— Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 6 Sep. 2026
With a title translating as The Fables Newspaper, the show took place in a forest filled with anthropomorphic animals where the main character, an owl named Meneer de Uil read headlines from a daily paper.

— Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 19 Aug. 2026