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to express something (as a text or statement) in different words
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And then Teeny would screenshot tweets and translate them into something an offline 33-year-old grandma would understand.
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Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2024
In China, techy orientation translates all the way down to auto manufacturing, says Leonard LaRocca, the US automotive lead at independent services firm KPMG.
—Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 12 Dec. 2024
In her seven-part novel On the Calculation of Volume (the first two books of which are now out in English, as translated by Barbara J. Haveland), the Danish writer Solvej Balle pushes the writer’s privilege to its limit.
—Rhian Sasseen, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2024
Of the album’s total units, 285,000 came from streaming equivalent albums (SEA), translating to an impressive 379.72 million on-demand official streams of the album’s 12 tracks.
—Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 2 Dec. 2024
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Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2024
In China, techy orientation translates all the way down to auto manufacturing, says Leonard LaRocca, the US automotive lead at independent services firm KPMG.
—Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 12 Dec. 2024
In her seven-part novel On the Calculation of Volume (the first two books of which are now out in English, as translated by Barbara J. Haveland), the Danish writer Solvej Balle pushes the writer’s privilege to its limit.
—Rhian Sasseen, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2024
Of the album’s total units, 285,000 came from streaming equivalent albums (SEA), translating to an impressive 379.72 million on-demand official streams of the album’s 12 tracks.
—Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 2 Dec. 2024
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“Translate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/translate. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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