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  • verb Present participle of retranslate.

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Examples

  • "English subtitles retranslating the Chinese translation used in the version copied"?

    languagehat.com: THE BACKSTROKE OF THE WEST. 2005

  • I haven't seen Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith yet, and I'm not sure I need to now that I've seen these screenshots of a bootleg DVD with English subtitles retranslating the Chinese translation used in the version copied.

    languagehat.com: THE BACKSTROKE OF THE WEST. 2005

  • I was reading a post at Sadly, No! about Conservapedia's new Conservative Bible Project, in which the creationist fundie homeschoolers at Conservapedia will be "retranslating" the Bible in order to avoid "corruption by liberal bias".

    It's James Blish's future . . . Johnny Pez 2009

  • Not exactly, but now I can see why my father was retranslating the Bible.

    The Ark Boyd Morrison 2009

  • So really, retranslating that technology and developing something which was so clean, it was virtually pollution-free.

    Norman Foster's green agenda Norman Foster 2007

  • So really, retranslating that technology and developing something which was so clean, it was virtually pollution-free.

    Norman Foster's green agenda Norman Foster 2007

  • So really, retranslating that technology and developing something which was so clean, it was virtually pollution-free.

    Norman Foster's green agenda Norman Foster 2007

  • After all, Joseph Smith had to “retranslate” the bible, as I well know, having recently visited the room in Kirtland, Ohio, where he did most of that retranslating….

    New Testament. | Mind on Fire 2005

  • In your first sentence “retranslating” Nicks simple statement, you replaced “equal” with “create”.

    Same-sex marriage, civil unions, and country-club bigotry 2004

  • But this polemical attitude did not prevent the humanists from finding, translating, or retranslating, and circulating the basic texts of ancient science.

    RENAISSANCE HUMANISM NICOLA ABBAGNANO 1968

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