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translator

[trans-lay-ter, tranz-, trans-lay-ter, tranz-] / trænsˈleɪ tər, trænz-, ˈtræns leɪ tər, ˈtrænz- /


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It's the kind of idiom which can trip up an AI translator.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Maybe you agree with translator Emily Wilson, who thinks Nolan’s movie “lacks psychological, emotional, political and ethical depth” and that its writing is “abysmal.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

“Everything is done to the highest order of perfection, and there is thought in every little detail,” the Chinese president said through a translator.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

One of the men told me in English that he was a translator and introduced the other two as witnesses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

He then fed the fairy characters into his PowerBook translator.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

But many doctors already know what medicine is like without human translators.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

Oates, who penned the Pulitzer Prize-nominated “Blonde,” said that, within the world of translators, Wilson’s review “seems all the more surprising since all translations are, presumably, subjective & not equivalent to the original text.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

It requires subject experts, translators, reviewers and moderators.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

Because magnons naturally interact with many different quantum systems, they could also act as universal translators, allowing technologies that normally cannot communicate with one another to work together.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 2, 2026

The husky scratching of vuvv announcements booms through the air above the shuttles, and those of us with translators lead the mob toward the innards of the ship.

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson


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