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They collaborated on “what became the most significant effort to convert Native peoples in English North America”: a translation of the Bible into the Wampanoag language.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
The firm wants people to use the glasses for various tasks, such as streaming video, and says it can offer live translation across 60 languages.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
In that sense, the market’s translation looks premature.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
There are several popular renditions of “The Odyssey” written in prose, such as E. V. Rieu’s 1946 translation, which according to Penguin focuses on the clarity of the storytelling.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
The translation of a few pages of German occupied an hour; then I got my palette and pencils, and fell to the more soothing, because easier occupation, of completing Rosamond Oliver’s miniature.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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
Spotify reported a surge interest in audiobook translations of "The Odyssey": searches skyrocketed by 310 percent, with Gen Z and millennials leading the demand.
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
It has been widely regarded as one of the greatest works of Western literature, has had various translations and is believed to have been translated into English more than 100 times.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
The story of the “Wooden Horse,” as most translations call it, gets only brief references in Homer’s epic, cited in passing as an example of Odysseus’s cunning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Throughout the early weeks of February, Danny and I met in the lunchroom, sat at a table by ourselves, and discussed the difficulties he was having with his mathematical translations of psychological experiments.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
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