mistranslated

verb

past tense of mistranslate
as in misinterpreted

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mistranslated
  1. misinterpreted
  2. distorted
  3. misrepresented
  4. misstated
  5. falsified
  6. cooked
  7. perverted
  8. slanted
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  • Trump had campaigned on restricting birthright citizenship, arguing that the citizenship clause had been misinterpreted, and attended the April 2026 oral arguments in a first for a sitting president.
    — Mike Snider, USA Today, 1 July 2026
  • Anthropic reports 65% of its product team's code is AI-generated by Claude, a statistic often misinterpreted as broad automation.
    — Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
Definition of misinterpreted
Verb
  • Ground-level testing often gets distorted by background emissions from surrounding soil and vegetation, while flying delicate sensors directly into corrosive plumes rapidly destroys the equipment.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 13 July 2026
  • Whether the market is softening, stabilizing, or simply distorted by overly optimistic sellers requires someone to watch and interpret conditions in the present tense.
    — John Walkup, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
Definition of distorted
Verb
  • This gives buyers the ability to return products that were misrepresented.
    — Kathy Kristof, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 July 2026
  • Federal prosecutors alleged Holmes knowingly misrepresented the capabilities of Theranos technology and misled investors about the company's financial condition, partnerships, and laboratory capabilities.
    — Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
Definition of misrepresented
Verb
  • Correction, July 14 The original version of this story misstated where Hanson appeared in Titanique.
    — Rachel Brodsky, Time, 14 July 2026
  • This article previously misstated details about the Faro Santander show.
    — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 2 July 2026
Definition of misstated
Verb
  • Justices found Yoon violated Cabinet members’ deliberation rights, falsified and destroyed the martial law proclamation, and used security forces to obstruct his arrest before lawmakers swiftly repealed the decree.
    — Kim Tong-Hyung, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026
  • Yet under the Third Circuit’s rule, a taxpayer may remain vulnerable long after records have disappeared and witnesses are unavailable, if a preparer intentionally falsified a return.
    — Virginia La Torre Jeker, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
Definition of falsified
Verb
  • Devin said her steak and eggs, cooked before the sun is up, are perfect.
    — Spencer Nusbaum, New York Times, 10 July 2026
  • Yes, the menu includes Attilio Marini’s famous steak cooked in a cast iron skillet for crispiness on the outside and tenderness inside.
    — Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 9 July 2026
Definition of cooked
Verb
  • More important to Bernstein is what that lust reveals about her characters’ deepest needs, specifically how their need to care and be cared for can be as easily perverted as any other form of desire.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 9 July 2026
  • Georgia Bernstein’s unsettling directorial debut focuses on how warped and perverted those desires become when they’re taken to their insatiable extremes.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 8 July 2026
Definition of perverted
Verb
  • Despite those altruistic goals, from the beginning, the commission faced criticism that the composition and agenda of the body were slanted toward a conservative Christian perspective.
    — Steven K. Green, The Conversation, 2 July 2026
  • Always slanted in one direction, of course.
    — Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 23 June 2026
Definition of slanted
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