How to Use untranslated in a Sentence
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Have a peek: Have another peek: The signs in the museum are untranslated.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 7 Feb. 2018
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There’s quite a lot of dialogue in Polish, nearly all of it untranslated.
—Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 16 Apr. 2018
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Parts of it are in untranslated Korean, French, and Chinese.
—R. O. Kwon, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2022
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And there are subtitles for those who don’t understand Spanish; the dialogue in the book is untranslated.
—Jim Kiest, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Oct. 2021
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Audiences who already know the names, places, and songs will have a bighead start over newcomers; there are English subtitles, but a great deal goes untranslated.
—Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2019
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The documents had remained untranslated because so few people could read Old Dutch.
—Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 25 Apr. 2018
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Characters speak untranslated Spanish and, in The Passenger, a bit of German.
—Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2022
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For years, these numbers have remained untranslated in the online archives of the Chinese Ministry of Education.
—Victoria Breeze and Nathan Moore, CNN, 29 June 2017
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There is plenty of untranslated Spanish, and Lore is clearly the most successful and assertive character.
—Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2022
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Today, those who can read cuneiform are few and far between, and the vast majority of cuneiform texts remain untranslated.
—Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2020
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Though all 13 of his novels have now been released in English, there is still plenty of untranslated material among his countless plays, novellas, stories and memoirs.
—Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2022
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Meanwhile, readers unfamiliar with the history of Kuwait and its meld of Arab traditions will be trying to untangle the many untranslated words and phrases that the characters use.
—Bethanne Patrick, Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2019
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But the poem exists only in Northern Sami: Valkeapaa requested that it be left untranslated.
—Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2020
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The final node, April 1917, still untranslated, encompasses two more volumes.
—Gary Saul Morson, The New York Review of Books, 27 Apr. 2022
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The second phase is using the model: new data (say, untranslated text or an image of an unknown animal) is fed into the model and an output is produced according to what the neural nets learned (the translation, or the kind of animal pictured).
—Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 7 May 2018
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The prose — saturated with details of Filipino culture and untranslated snippets of Tagalog, Ilocano and Pangasinan — might be overwhelming in a wider-ranging novel.
—Amy Gentry, chicagotribune.com, 2 Apr. 2018
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Even Arabic texts embedded within art objects go mostly untranslated, despite the integral nature of their content and graphic design.
—Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 4 June 2018
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Horrible subtitles are also a familiar problem for fans of foreign language films and anime — in fact, some fandoms crowdsource amateur subtitles for untranslated or badly translated shows.
—Jeva Lange, The Week, 5 Oct. 2021
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The untranslated regions also contribute to control of viral replication and messenger RNA synthesis and translation.
—William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
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Fragments of dialogue spoken in Tagalog, Ilocano or Pangasinan are woven untranslated into the prose, creating authentic sensations of an immigrant’s life.
—Anita Felicelli, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 May 2018
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