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translation

noun

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 Adapted from Gary Owen’s praised monodrama Iphigenia in Splott, which was staged extensively across Wales, England and internationally, the film is produced by Branwen Cennard, who also led the translation of Owen’s original text. — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 28 Aug. 2026 The hard part is the handoff Qualitative research from March 2026 found that many scientists across disciplines view communicating uncertainty as a form of translation. — Aleeza Gerstein, The Conversation, 28 Aug. 2026 That is, with almost no translation required, the exact difference between the Chinese students who used AI like a tutor and kept practicing, and the ones who used it to skip the practice altogether. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2026 Yen Press released an English translation in digital and paperback formats in 2020. — Aman Kumar, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for translation

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translating

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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
Writing and translating had become my only job.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 May 2026