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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An English translation of the French story that was first published in 2023, the 208-page tome tells the story of the many obstacles and near-figurative deaths Lucas had to overcome in order to make what would become one of the most consequential movies in pop culture history.
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Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
The production marks the Donmar debut of director Kip Williams, who has written a new translation of the French playwright’s classic work.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 4 Sep. 2025
There is a slight learning curve to get used to the timing between translations, but conversations flow remarkably quickly.
—PC Magazine, 4 Sep. 2025
It was given another boost in 2019 when OpenAI figured out that Transformers trained on large amounts of text could not only write text well, but master many other language tasks, from translation to summarization.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2025
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Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
The production marks the Donmar debut of director Kip Williams, who has written a new translation of the French playwright’s classic work.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 4 Sep. 2025
There is a slight learning curve to get used to the timing between translations, but conversations flow remarkably quickly.
—PC Magazine, 4 Sep. 2025
It was given another boost in 2019 when OpenAI figured out that Transformers trained on large amounts of text could not only write text well, but master many other language tasks, from translation to summarization.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2025
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“Translation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/translation. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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