translations

plural of translation
as in summaries
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 translations His translations have appeared in Words Without Borders, Asymptote, Plume and elsewhere. — Alicja Turczyk, The Dial, 29 Sep. 2026 Sometimes a box of foreign translations will arrive with the spine of every last book slit open. — Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026 While some of its high-level LLM tricks are downright goofy, essential features like live captions, translations, and mini-map navigation perform admirably. — Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 28 Sep. 2026 His translations were informed by his knowledge of American politics and culture. — Taryn Simon, The New York Review of Books, 19 Sep. 2026 The accounts used Claude to manage and operate digital operations, for language translations and to make posts seem attributable to independent news sources. — Lauren Fichten, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2026 The judge, however, rejected her claim that the novel amounted to fraudulent exploitation of her name and image and declined to ban translations or film adaptations of the book. — Jami Ganz, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Sep. 2026 English translations followed in the early 20th century, including an influential 1910 translation by the British scholar Lionel Giles. — Ethan Teekah, Encyclopedia Britannica, 11 Sep. 2026 Du Qinchun, a part-time translator, has been helping to train an AI model to do translations. — ABC News, 23 Aug. 2026
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Noun
  • Many users express frustration with AI's inaccuracies, misleading information, and the intrusive nature of AI summaries.
    — Rob Pegoraro, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Agentic systems require enterprises to understand where personal data is transformed into summaries, classifications, profiles, embeddings or other persistent outputs that may still relate to an individual.
    — Kobi Nissan, Forbes.com, 2 Oct. 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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  • In companies experiencing triple-digit growth, small calculation errors could result in multi-million-dollar restatements and a fundamental misunderstanding of burn rate and runway.
    — Jordan Zamir, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
  • 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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“Translations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/translations. Accessed 5 Oct. 2026.

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