Google Translate

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Google Translate (third-person singular simple present Google Translates, present participle Google Translating, simple past and past participle Google Translated)

1. To translate using the Google Translate machine translation service.
   • 2015, Helen Russell, “December: Trusting the Taxman (or Woman)”, in The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World’s Happiest Country, London: Icon Books, →ISBN, page 283:

     Doing life admin in your own country is arduous enough, but attempting to do it in a foreign land, in a language with which you’re still not familiar, is nigh on impossible. After eleven months of Google Translating every document that came my way, I’ve become a little slack of late.

   • 2016, Ashley Elizabeth Ludwig, chapter 29, in First Crush, Raleigh, N.C.: Bling! Romance, →ISBN, page 192:

     Cleaning the pastry cutter with her spatula, Corie’s mind dipped to the little journal of Natalie’s. She’d Google Translated some of it, but for the most part, it didn’t make any sense. It mentioned the first crush, the alignment of the stars, the comet that year …

   • 2021, Sinéad Stubbins, “Three doctors”, in In My Defence, I Have No Defence: Catastrophes in Pursuing Perfection, Melbourne, Vic.: Affirm Press, →ISBN, “The soul” section:

     After having the unfortunate experience of needing an emergency root canal while holidaying in Berlin (I didn’t realise it was a root canal until I Google Translated the receipt the next day – it certainly explains why it took so long and why the drugs they pumped into me made the three-hour Third Reich walking tour I went on immediately after the operation seem very visceral) I knew I needed to find a proper dentist when I got back to Melbourne.