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
Deep learning soon conquered speech recognition, translation, image captioning, board games, and even the problem of predicting how proteins will fold.
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James Somers, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
Without this cognitive translation, day-to-day stressors may dictate overall sense of well-being, or the mix and shifts between positive and negative parts of parenting may make life seem overall incoherent for these fathers.
—Anthony Vaccaro, Scientific American, 29 Oct. 2025
Features like automatic speech recognition, language translation, and image sorting all use networks of computers.
—Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 29 Oct. 2025
Stephen Unwin directs this production, with design by Bunny Christie and translation by Anthony Vivis.
—Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 28 Oct. 2025
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James Somers, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
Without this cognitive translation, day-to-day stressors may dictate overall sense of well-being, or the mix and shifts between positive and negative parts of parenting may make life seem overall incoherent for these fathers.
—Anthony Vaccaro, Scientific American, 29 Oct. 2025
Features like automatic speech recognition, language translation, and image sorting all use networks of computers.
—Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 29 Oct. 2025
Stephen Unwin directs this production, with design by Bunny Christie and translation by Anthony Vivis.
—Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 28 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for translation
translating
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Drafting in English and translating often produces stilted, unnatural messages.—
Adam Mills,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Oct. 2025
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Valeria was able to do any translating, and with help from furniture donated by neighbors the Haskells converted their three-bedroom house into a five-bedroom house to accommodate the Zarutskas along with themselves, Valeria’s adult daughter, and three dogs.—
Danielle Battaglia,
Charlotte Observer,
22 Sep. 2025
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“Translation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/translation. Accessed 16 Nov. 2025.
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