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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The council decided that the Vulgate, a Latin translation of the Bible, was enough to understand scripture, and there was little need to investigate its original Greek and Hebrew version.
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Joëlle Rollo-Koster, The Conversation, 28 Mar. 2025
The European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) then pushed Apple to open up a lot more and let people select default apps for phone calls, messaging, password managers, keyboards, call spam filters, navigation, and translation apps.
—Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
And the city of San Diego, which began using language translation tools during the pandemic to help people testifying by Zoom, has made the feature permanent so anyone can watch city meetings in their own language with the touch of a button.
—David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2025
Driving the news: Francis' life was at risk twice, his doctors said at a Saturday news conference, per an Associated Press' translation.
—Avery Lotz, Axios, 23 Mar. 2025
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Joëlle Rollo-Koster, The Conversation, 28 Mar. 2025
The European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) then pushed Apple to open up a lot more and let people select default apps for phone calls, messaging, password managers, keyboards, call spam filters, navigation, and translation apps.
—Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
And the city of San Diego, which began using language translation tools during the pandemic to help people testifying by Zoom, has made the feature permanent so anyone can watch city meetings in their own language with the touch of a button.
—David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2025
Driving the news: Francis' life was at risk twice, his doctors said at a Saturday news conference, per an Associated Press' translation.
—Avery Lotz, Axios, 23 Mar. 2025
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“Translation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/translation. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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