untranslatable
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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I think there’s a kind of quiet beauty in leaving some things untranslatable, and just sitting beside someone with very different value systems and understanding, “This is what gives you joy.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2023
The bulk of what we say is nonverbal, untranslatable to texts.
From Washington Post • Mar. 27, 2020
We often began our work day together saying, “You know, this is an untranslatable play!”
From New York Times • Sep. 10, 2018
Tsundoku is such a relatable but untranslatable concept that it regularly re-enters our Western consciousness through online articles.
From Slate • Sep. 10, 2018
Their crowns entwined and crisscrossed and whispered with rain, and bowed and shifted as troops of monkeys passed through them like currents of wind, leaping from crown to crown, crying their untranslatable cries.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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