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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Rather than deal with subtitles or translations, the characters use accents when speaking English in the play but then remove them when speaking Farsi, thus replicating the experience of non-native speakers from the audience’s perspective.
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Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 24 Jan. 2025
That’s according to a CNBC translation of his Mandarin-language remarks.
—Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 23 Jan. 2025
Questions included asking for a translation for a Palmyrene script, and hummingbird anatomy.
—Britney Nguyen, Quartz, 23 Jan. 2025
But in 2016, artificial intelligence had opened new possibilities for machine translation.
—Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 23 Jan. 2025
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Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 24 Jan. 2025
That’s according to a CNBC translation of his Mandarin-language remarks.
—Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 23 Jan. 2025
Questions included asking for a translation for a Palmyrene script, and hummingbird anatomy.
—Britney Nguyen, Quartz, 23 Jan. 2025
But in 2016, artificial intelligence had opened new possibilities for machine translation.
—Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 23 Jan. 2025
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“Translation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/translation. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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