Example Sentences

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The cause was complications from Parkinson’s disease, said his son Saad Alkabli, who transliterates his surname differently.

From Washington Post • Dec. 16, 2021

Otherwise, though, from the opener “Bigger,” The Gift transliterates the leonine royal-family drama and “circle of life” worldview of The Lion King into the recent main leitmotif of Beyoncé’s own work.

From Slate • Jul. 19, 2019

Besides being bigger, ravens can be distinguished from crows by the croaking sound they make, which the Cornell Lab of Ornithology transliterates as “cr-r-ruck.”

From New York Times • Oct. 23, 2016

They included “Edano_my_Angel,” “Edano_go_to_bed” and “Edano_nero,” which transliterates a Japanese word meaning “go to sleep.”

From BusinessWeek • Mar. 16, 2011

Meaning, till the Church transliterates its entire set of Roman-script liturgical, ritual and other holy books to Devanagiri, the use of Roman Script will not die.

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