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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
The following story features Spanish and English translations.
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Sabrina Franza, CBS News, 4 Feb. 2026
For the bans on Proust and other international writers only applied to translations, allowing those with sufficient linguistic ability to consume scandalous masterpieces from abroad in their original form.
—Literary Hub, 2 Feb. 2026
The program was launched in 2024 to investigate how emerging generative AI tools could be combined with traditional code analysis to automate Rust translations.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 Jan. 2026
For example, an organization might use AI for scheduling, translations, or administrative tasks, while people remain responsible for communication, mentoring, and critical thinking—the things that matter most for trust and performance.
—Bob Sternfels, Fortune, 22 Jan. 2026
To obtain a residence permit, applicants must provide evidence of their stay in Bulgaria, a clean criminal record certificate from their country of residence, translations of any foreign documents into Bulgarian, and meet the official minimum income threshold of $36,168 USD per year.
—Celia Fernandez, CNBC, 10 Jan. 2026
Bang’s unconventional approach was inspired by an encounter with a medley of 47 different English translations of the Inferno’s famous first three lines assembled by the poet Caroline Bergvall.
—Eric Bulson, The Atlantic, 2 Jan. 2026
Fashioning an English version out of Molière’s hexameter is notoriously difficult, particularly because the poet Richard Wilbur already dominates the field, with a shelf’s worth of intricate lacework translations.
—Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2025
When the mind of a bilingual child mirrors absurd translations, their poetic misinterpretations can accidentally produce multiple meanings — and create puns.
—Elaina Patton, IndieWire, 15 Dec. 2025
Sabrina Franza, CBS News, 4 Feb. 2026
For the bans on Proust and other international writers only applied to translations, allowing those with sufficient linguistic ability to consume scandalous masterpieces from abroad in their original form.
—Literary Hub, 2 Feb. 2026
The program was launched in 2024 to investigate how emerging generative AI tools could be combined with traditional code analysis to automate Rust translations.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 Jan. 2026
For example, an organization might use AI for scheduling, translations, or administrative tasks, while people remain responsible for communication, mentoring, and critical thinking—the things that matter most for trust and performance.
—Bob Sternfels, Fortune, 22 Jan. 2026
To obtain a residence permit, applicants must provide evidence of their stay in Bulgaria, a clean criminal record certificate from their country of residence, translations of any foreign documents into Bulgarian, and meet the official minimum income threshold of $36,168 USD per year.
—Celia Fernandez, CNBC, 10 Jan. 2026
Bang’s unconventional approach was inspired by an encounter with a medley of 47 different English translations of the Inferno’s famous first three lines assembled by the poet Caroline Bergvall.
—Eric Bulson, The Atlantic, 2 Jan. 2026
Fashioning an English version out of Molière’s hexameter is notoriously difficult, particularly because the poet Richard Wilbur already dominates the field, with a shelf’s worth of intricate lacework translations.
—Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2025
When the mind of a bilingual child mirrors absurd translations, their poetic misinterpretations can accidentally produce multiple meanings — and create puns.
—Elaina Patton, IndieWire, 15 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for translations
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The story summaries above were compiled with the help of AI tools and edited by journalists in the Miami Herald newsroom.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
4 Feb. 2026
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Putin’s name does appear in the records released by the Justice Department about 1,000 times, but the bulk of those references are news articles, or summaries of news stories, that have been shared by others and have nothing to do with the Epstein investigation.—
Claudia Ciobanu,
Los Angeles Times,
4 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 8 Feb. 2026.
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