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He had also been quoted as saying during his interrogation that he felt “drowsy” before the accident — a word he later told his wife had been mistranslated in a statement he signed.

From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2023

Angwang told The Associated Press his words were either mistranslated from Mandarin or taken out of context.

From Washington Times • Feb. 9, 2023

The works were later translated and made available on the language center’s website, which Holton used to investigate the origin of the mistranslated texts.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 12, 2023

In this case, he says, Reid mistranslated a key sentence.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2022

This accurate description somehow got mistranslated as ‘tube’, but modern medicine seems to be stuck with the inaccurate version of the term.’

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin