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had to read Dante's Divine Comedy in translation since I don't know Italian
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Recent Examples of translations
Both reiterated, however, that the investigation was still active and the translations almost complete.
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Ava Kofman, New Yorker, 11 May 2026
What Olga has made clear, even through rough translations, are the dire conditions she’s faced in prison.
—Christopher Cann, USA Today, 10 May 2026
Idra Novey and Garth Greenwell team up on translations of Spanish poet Luis Muñoz, and Nightboat Books delivers Antonio Ochoa’s engaging bilingual prose poem sequence, Small Sargasso Mountains.
—Literary Hub, 1 May 2026
Captions were prone to more errors when offline, but translations often came out downright confusing, with both wrong words and baffling grammar.
—Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 29 Apr. 2026
The list does not include translations used by Catholics or sacred texts from non-Jewish and non-Christian faiths.
—Charles J. Russo, The Conversation, 27 Apr. 2026
His first collection, Death of a Naturalist, was published by Faber and Faber in 1966 and was followed by eleven other volumes of poetry, as well as collections of literary criticism, anthologies, translations, and verse plays.
—Nick Laird, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026
There were very few Persian translations (not to mention texts to translate).
—Big Think, 23 Apr. 2026
The Aramco magazine has covered Albanian folk music, Muslim influences on American blues, Arabic translations of superhero comics, and the migration of camels.
—Manal Albarakati, semafor.com, 9 Apr. 2026
Ava Kofman, New Yorker, 11 May 2026
What Olga has made clear, even through rough translations, are the dire conditions she’s faced in prison.
—Christopher Cann, USA Today, 10 May 2026
Idra Novey and Garth Greenwell team up on translations of Spanish poet Luis Muñoz, and Nightboat Books delivers Antonio Ochoa’s engaging bilingual prose poem sequence, Small Sargasso Mountains.
—Literary Hub, 1 May 2026
Captions were prone to more errors when offline, but translations often came out downright confusing, with both wrong words and baffling grammar.
—Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 29 Apr. 2026
The list does not include translations used by Catholics or sacred texts from non-Jewish and non-Christian faiths.
—Charles J. Russo, The Conversation, 27 Apr. 2026
His first collection, Death of a Naturalist, was published by Faber and Faber in 1966 and was followed by eleven other volumes of poetry, as well as collections of literary criticism, anthologies, translations, and verse plays.
—Nick Laird, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026
There were very few Persian translations (not to mention texts to translate).
—Big Think, 23 Apr. 2026
The Aramco magazine has covered Albanian folk music, Muslim influences on American blues, Arabic translations of superhero comics, and the migration of camels.
—Manal Albarakati, semafor.com, 9 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for translations
Noun
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In the report, the auditor general points out multiple concerning examples of mistakes in those summaries that could have a direct and negative impact on a patient’s subsequent care.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
14 May 2026
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On Thursday evening, the two attended a state banquet in Beijing, and both countries released readouts, or summaries of that private meeting.—
Steve Inskeep,
NPR,
14 May 2026
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Some of the suspects try to minimize their actions with euphemisms or paraphrases; others do so with explanations that the prosecutors find utterly implausible.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
19 Feb. 2026
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Nor is the sheer weight of restatements in Barcelona’s most recent sets of accounts.—
Chris Weatherspoon,
New York Times,
3 Nov. 2025
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Legally require advance public notice, impact estimates and historical restatements when definitions or calculations change.—
Brent Dykes,
Forbes.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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“Translations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/translations. Accessed 18 May. 2026.
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