mistranslates

Definition of mistranslatesnext
present tense third-person singular of mistranslate

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for mistranslates
Verb
  • That's because the section in the FACE Act criminalizing interference at houses of worship fundamentally misstates the rights people have under the First Amendment.
    Sarah N. Lynch, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Following a misleading report on hospital finances, The Denver Post published an editorial that misrepresents UCHealth’s role in caring for Colorado patients and misstates key facts about our financial operations.
    Elizabeth B. Concordia, Denver Post, 29 Dec. 2025
Verb
  • The administration misinterprets a Nixon-era law in its bid to reimpose tariffs struck down by the Supreme Court.
    Editorial Board, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2026
  • That memorandum misinterprets the law to allow for more exceptions than intended, according to the letter.
    Peter D'Abrosca, FOXNews.com, 26 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • The American Psychiatric Association, another plaintiff in the suit, alleges that EmblemHealth misrepresents the coverage that psychiatrists offer, which the lawsuit says is false advertising.
    Kate Snow, NBC news, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Ideas expressed in the piece Hillary Clinton’s claim that Democratic presidents deported more people without detaining children or killing citizens misrepresents the historical record of immigration enforcement under Democratic administrations.
    Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • First, the skull weakens and distorts sound waves.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 2 Mar. 2026
  • The work depicts a camel whose body distorts into a landmass, possibly Kazakhstan itself.
    Anel Rakhimzhanova, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • In this recipe, the intense heat quickly and efficiently cooks the small pieces of meat, with no need to worry about the exterior overcooking before the interior is done.
    The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The food must’ve seemed familiar to Liu, as the kitchen not only cooks Italian food but the chef himself also hails from Italy — the mountain village of Palombaro, in the Abruzzo region.
    John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • With his multi-instrumentalist bandmates, PJ Moore and co-songwriter Robert Bell, Buchanan zooms into these exchanges to prolong them or dissembles them into jagged pieces that leave the bigger picture to us.
    Sam Sodomsky, Pitchfork, 1 Feb. 2026
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“Mistranslates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mistranslates. Accessed 9 Mar. 2026.

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