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Secretary of State Marco Rubio was heading Tuesday to Beijing with President Donald Trump despite being under Chinese sanctions -- a breakthrough apparently made possible after China changed his name's transliteration.
From Barron's • May 12, 2026
Some words have been lent twice, including why-SHAT-suh, which means dress shirt and is taken from a Japanese transliteration of “white shirt.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2025
The dog has the American name “Decoy” and a Japanese name, “Dekopin” or “Decopin” depending on the transliteration.
From Washington Times • Dec. 14, 2023
As to Kiev and Kyiv, that’s simpler: Kyiv is the appropriate transliteration of the Ukrainian name of the country’s capital, whereas Kiev is the name of the city in Russian.
From Washington Post • Mar. 9, 2022
The transliteration of a cartouche of Ptolemy from the Rosetta stone and one of Cleopatra from the Philae obelisk.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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Words with 15 or More Letters, List 3
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