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dub

[duhb] / dʌb /


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Zegarra points to how Tweedie Waititi, the sister of Oscar-winning director Taika Waititi, has partnered with Disney to dub multiple titles into te reo Māori, a language spoken by about 200,000 people.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026

If a language with such a small number of speakers merits a dub, their hope is that Disney would consider the 10 million people who speak Quechua.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026

In effect, a threat to make Canada the 51st state is pushing America’s northern neighbor so close to Europe that leaders have begun to half-in-jest dub it the EU’s newest member.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

While one shows up at gigs and rave nights, the other is a bit more pub than dub.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

“Someone half clever might dub you Pitch or Scuttle, ill-favored names. Or Slate, a sedentary name. Heaven forbid you end up Blackie, that’s an ill-fitting name for a prince like you.”

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

When the videos went viral online and received local news coverage, institutions started asking Valencia if he had dubbed any of those titles in full.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026

For many children living in remote towns across the Peruvian Andes, movies only exist in the form of bootleg DVDs — Hollywood films dubbed in Spanish or in English with Spanish subtitles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026

The New York Post called it a "wacky cult," the conservative Daily Caller dubbed it "The AI Doomsday Cartel," and a White House memo accused it of preferring the saving of "shrimp over families."

From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026

A slew of players, such as Spain’s Jon Rahm, said publicly that they wouldn’t continue with what was being dubbed “LIV 2.0.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

The Motor City, which hasn’t been dubbed Motown yet, becomes for a time the “Arsenal of Democracy.”

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

And so Valencia, in a makeshift recording studio, started dubbing fragments of popular Hollywood films into Quechua.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026

The property caught the attention of the content creator behind the Housing Horrors TikTok account, where a video was posted dubbing the old station house the "scariest house on Rightmove".

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

Watching the stop-motion monsters climb over ruined walls to poke at Greece’s elite soldiers, it’s easy to forgive the movie for its less-than-stellar dubbing or borderline nonsensical love story.

From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026

The postings suggest the Disney, Netflix and Amazon studios are building repeatable AI workflows for visual effects, animation, sound and dubbing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026

Baba burst out in gales of his deep- throated laughter—a sound not unlike a truck engine revving up—and, when he could talk again, explained to us the concept of voice dubbing.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini


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