How to Use in translation in a Sentence

in translation

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Definition of in translationnext
  • The humor is lost in translation but the pathos is there.
    — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Maybe that first part was lost in translation for the Frenchman.
    — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2024
  • Lost in translation Ohtani has not been accused of a crime.
    — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2024
  • In the United States, about 3% of all books published are works in translation.
    — Emily Burack, Town & Country, 23 Feb. 2022
  • So before getting to the quotes, there is a chance that there may be some things that are lost in translation.
    — Mike Stubbs, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2024
  • Gone are the days of scratchy speaker boxes where items got lost in translation.
    — Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 20 Nov. 2024
  • But the flavor, the gusto, of the endeavor gets lost in translation.
    — Todd Pitock, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2022
  • So a lot of messages get lost in translation between the platforms.
    — WIRED, 23 Oct. 2022
  • Being lost in translation is not a lost art for parents.
    — Melissa Willets, Parents, 30 July 2024
  • Skip the taste of three signature tacos with beef, pork and chicken, a super salty mess that gets lost in translation.
    — Louisa Kung Liu Chu, Chicago Tribune, 7 May 2024
  • When a 10-year-old boy who loves something more than life itself can’t wait to get out there and do it, things lose meaning in translation.
    — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Sep. 2022
  • Readers around the world have come to know the book in translation, with the latest English version, by Jeannette K. Ringold, released in 2020.
    — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 19 July 2023
  • What was absent in the original that could be found only in translation?
    — Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
  • This is her first audiobook, both in English and in translation.
    — Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Probably not the only thing lost in translation that week.
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Kind of like the Robert Frost saying about poetry being lost in translation.
    — Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2024
  • But once again, something crucial was lost in translation.
    — Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2024
  • Jaguar is attempting to speak a new language of luxury but it got lost in translation.
    — Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Advances in translation are directly tied to Google’s AI work, too.
    — Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Is there something of significance lost or changed in translation in the various editions of the Bible?
    — Lauren Kane, The New York Review of Books, 25 Dec. 2022
  • That the former is essential to making the latter better is either lost in translation or falls on deaf ears.
    — James Horncastle, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024
  • This point is very important but often gets lost in translation.
    — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
  • But something was often lost in translation, or adaptation, from page to screen.
    — Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 14 July 2023
  • Akin to being lost in translation, the model chose slightly wrong numbers, which produced word sequences that made no sense.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
  • Preciado lives in Paris, and most of the film is in French, including Woolf’s texts, which are delivered in translation.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Cronin said Mara told him his girlfriend traffic was picking up, though the message may have been lost in translation given what happened next.
    — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2025
  • But this scene is not easy to grasp from a superficial reading of the texts, especially in translation.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Nothing could be lost in translation because there was nothing to translate.
    — Gabriel Rom, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Although this classic bildungsroman may have been nipped and tucked in the transition from page to screen, in terms of scale and sweep and emotion, little appears to have been lost in translation.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2023
  • Some of the problem may be lost in translation, as Brussels, Paris and Milan are speaking different languages.
    — Rhonda Richford, WWD, 5 Dec. 2024

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