How to Use in translation in a Sentence
in translation
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The humor is lost in translation but the pathos is there.
—Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2023
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Maybe that first part was lost in translation for the Frenchman.
—Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2024
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Lost in translation Ohtani has not been accused of a crime.
—Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2024
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In the United States, about 3% of all books published are works in translation.
—Emily Burack, Town & Country, 23 Feb. 2022
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But the flavor, the gusto, of the endeavor gets lost in translation.
—Todd Pitock, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2022
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So a lot of messages get lost in translation between the platforms.
—WIRED, 23 Oct. 2022
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Skip the taste of three signature tacos with beef, pork and chicken, a super salty mess that gets lost in translation.
—Louisa Kung Liu Chu, Chicago Tribune, 7 May 2024
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When a 10-year-old boy who loves something more than life itself can’t wait to get out there and do it, things lose meaning in translation.
—Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Sep. 2022
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Readers around the world have come to know the book in translation, with the latest English version, by Jeannette K. Ringold, released in 2020.
—Emily Langer, Washington Post, 19 July 2023
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What was absent in the original that could be found only in translation?
—Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
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This is her first audiobook, both in English and in translation.
—Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2024
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Probably not the only thing lost in translation that week.
—Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 10 Apr. 2023
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Kind of like the Robert Frost saying about poetry being lost in translation.
—Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2024
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But once again, something crucial was lost in translation.
—Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2024
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Advances in translation are directly tied to Google’s AI work, too.
—Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2023
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Is there something of significance lost or changed in translation in the various editions of the Bible?
—Lauren Kane, The New York Review of Books, 25 Dec. 2022
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But something was often lost in translation, or adaptation, from page to screen.
—Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 14 July 2023
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Akin to being lost in translation, the model chose slightly wrong numbers, which produced word sequences that made no sense.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
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Preciado lives in Paris, and most of the film is in French, including Woolf’s texts, which are delivered in translation.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2023
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But this scene is not easy to grasp from a superficial reading of the texts, especially in translation.
—Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Oct. 2023
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Nothing could be lost in translation because there was nothing to translate.
—Gabriel Rom, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2022
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Although this classic bildungsroman may have been nipped and tucked in the transition from page to screen, in terms of scale and sweep and emotion, little appears to have been lost in translation.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2023
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Her memoir — published in April — is currently in translation in 12 languages and set to be released in 16 more countries later this year.
—Britta Stromeyer, The Mercury News, 4 June 2024
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The feel is uneven, the dialogue somewhat stilted, either by design or flawed in translation.
—New York Times, 4 Aug. 2021
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That- in translation, that is actually- works well because monstro, monster, monte, mountain.
—Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Feb. 2023
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Those movements are barely in the background; the foreground is Tu Fu’s sensibility, hard to seize in translation, and so Weinberger is coming at it from the flank.
—Wyatt Mason, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
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In a different thread on the subreddit, a Brazilian user explained what might be getting lost in translation.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 19 Dec. 2023
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The risk is getting lost in translation Knowing about heat and humidity is important, but my colleagues and I have found that the term heat index is not well understood.
—Micki Olson, The Conversation, 5 June 2024
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The Last Airbender that lose everything in translation.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 15 Nov. 2021
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Those, literally, must have gotten lost in translation.
—Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 21 Mar. 2024
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