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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From that point of view, Mishima’s work is, at least theoretically, amenable to translation in a way that, for example, the Nobel Laureate Kenzaburo Oe’s is not.
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Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2024
As a result, traffic stops that should take 15 minutes stretched into hours long investigations as officers used translation apps to find out the drivers’ real identities.
—Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica, 24 Oct. 2024
Those capabilities such as live translation are powered by the new Llama 3.2 model, which brings multimodal capabilities to Meta AI and enhances vision and voice.
—Anshel Sag, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
The campaign runs Spanish phone banks six days a week, has weekly Spanish translation events and launches Spanish canvasses on the weekends.
—Stephanie Murray, The Arizona Republic, 30 Oct. 2024
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Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2024
As a result, traffic stops that should take 15 minutes stretched into hours long investigations as officers used translation apps to find out the drivers’ real identities.
—Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica, 24 Oct. 2024
Those capabilities such as live translation are powered by the new Llama 3.2 model, which brings multimodal capabilities to Meta AI and enhances vision and voice.
—Anshel Sag, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
The campaign runs Spanish phone banks six days a week, has weekly Spanish translation events and launches Spanish canvasses on the weekends.
—Stephanie Murray, The Arizona Republic, 30 Oct. 2024
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“Translation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/translation. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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