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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
This processor handles multitasking like a champ, while providing handy on-device AI features like real-time translations and transcriptions.
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PC Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
Marlowe did not invent the form; that honor belongs, some say, to Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, whose halting translations of Virgil were written twenty years, or more, before Marlowe was born.
—Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Dearborn Heights Police Department posted a design for a police badge option similar to its current design with the addition of Arabic translations for the English words.
—Natalie Davies, Freep.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Vivian Chen, a Taiwanese traveler who goes to South Korea three or four times a year, says the translations on the South Korean apps are often confusing.
—Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
Nine Lives publishes Hebrew translations of modern classics and contemporary international literature.
—Uriel Kon
september 2, Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2025
Gemini Nano, Google’s on-device AI model, delivers translations in your own voice, and even live photography coaching.
—Dave Altavilla, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
One video included translations of the foreign-language background chatter during a call in which Pierogi is impersonating an elderly woman.
—Alex Riggins, Mercury News, 29 Aug. 2025
But for those not named Mariah, literal translations are hard to pull off.
—Gráinne O'Hara Belluomo, WWD, 23 Dec. 2024
PC Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
Marlowe did not invent the form; that honor belongs, some say, to Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, whose halting translations of Virgil were written twenty years, or more, before Marlowe was born.
—Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Dearborn Heights Police Department posted a design for a police badge option similar to its current design with the addition of Arabic translations for the English words.
—Natalie Davies, Freep.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Vivian Chen, a Taiwanese traveler who goes to South Korea three or four times a year, says the translations on the South Korean apps are often confusing.
—Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
Nine Lives publishes Hebrew translations of modern classics and contemporary international literature.
—Uriel Kon
september 2, Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2025
Gemini Nano, Google’s on-device AI model, delivers translations in your own voice, and even live photography coaching.
—Dave Altavilla, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
One video included translations of the foreign-language background chatter during a call in which Pierogi is impersonating an elderly woman.
—Alex Riggins, Mercury News, 29 Aug. 2025
But for those not named Mariah, literal translations are hard to pull off.
—Gráinne O'Hara Belluomo, WWD, 23 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for translations
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Penske says roughly 20% of Google searches leading to its sites now display AI Overviews — and, here’s the rub, that those summaries lift material from publishers’ work, answer the user’s query directly on the results page, and keep readers from clicking through.—
Andy Meek,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Additionally, some of the summaries broke off in the middle of a sentence with no obvious way to read the missing text.—
Edward Mendelson,
PC Magazine,
15 Sep. 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 17 Sep. 2025.
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