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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After that, O’Grady worked in commercial translation for several years before moving into music criticism, reviewing acts including the Allman Brothers, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Bob Marley and the Wailers, and Sly and the Family Stone.
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Sandra McDonald, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
Its two biggest e-payment apps, WeChat and AliPay, now accept non-Chinese credit cards, have built-in translation software and streamlined identity verification processes.
—Lilit Marcus, CNN, 16 Dec. 2024
Additionally, choose solutions that can scale more effectively than native cloud network address translation (NAT), which is often difficult to upgrade and typically only provides inbound security, lacking outbound protections.
—Chris McHenry, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
Then the global publishing house HarperCollins issued an English translation this summer.
—Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 15 Dec. 2024
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Sandra McDonald, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
Its two biggest e-payment apps, WeChat and AliPay, now accept non-Chinese credit cards, have built-in translation software and streamlined identity verification processes.
—Lilit Marcus, CNN, 16 Dec. 2024
Additionally, choose solutions that can scale more effectively than native cloud network address translation (NAT), which is often difficult to upgrade and typically only provides inbound security, lacking outbound protections.
—Chris McHenry, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
Then the global publishing house HarperCollins issued an English translation this summer.
—Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 15 Dec. 2024
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“Translation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/translation. Accessed 5 Jan. 2025.
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