How to Use miscalculate in a Sentence

miscalculate

verb

• But the banks also miscalculated by putting a limit on how high those rates could rise—the foot fault that gives Musk his leverage.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2023
• Of course, the autocrats also could miscalculate in this game.
  — Gerald F. Seib, WSJ, 10 Jan. 2022
• If slow-slip motion is missed, researchers may miscalculate where the strains are on a fault—and how strong a quake that fault can potentially produce.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 26 May 2021
• Every performance is miscalculated, full of screeching, bug-eyed mugging and loudly played to the back of the house.
  — Josh Bell, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2024
• The lawsuit alleges the city overcharged GM by more than $100 million over seven years by miscalculating Cruise's tax bill.
  — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 7 Jan. 2024
• The lawsuit alleges the city overcharged GM by more than $100 million over seven years by miscalculating Cruise's tax bill.
  — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 9 Jan. 2024
• Starliner miscalculated its location in space due to a glitch caused by a faulty mission elapsed timer.
  — Passant Rabie / Gizmodo, Quartz, 2 May 2024
• Many people think the U.S. should make such a commitment explicit so Beijing doesn’t miscalculate and invade the island.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2021
• The filing argues that Nathan miscalculated, levying too harsh a prison sentence.
  — Lauren Del Valle, CNN, 1 Mar. 2023
• The big problem for the U.S., meanwhile, is that people in Mr. Putin’s position tend to miscalculate disastrously.
  — WSJ, 25 Jan. 2022
• As demand grew, however, there were signs the industry had vastly miscalculated the cost of its products.
  — Jonel Aleccia, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2023
• That said, duplicitous agents might undersell the severity of an issue, and honest ones can miscalculate the cost.
  — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Dec. 2021
• This motley crew has potential, but Y2K miscalculates the impact of certain character deaths.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2024
• Nobody could have predicted just how badly Scott miscalculated the conference owning all of its third-tier broadcast rights.
  — J. Brady McCollough, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2023
• Just as Putin has disastrously miscalculated in Ukraine, there is a considerable danger Xi will do so in Taiwan.
  — Robert M. Gates, Foreign Affairs, 29 Sep. 2023
• Amazon and Google miscalculated how the voice assistants would be used, leading them to invest in areas with the technology that rarely paid off, former employees said.
  — Karen Weise, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2023
• Indeed, Truman is clearly unraveling, having so miscalculated the degree to which his artistry could trump the salacious private details he’s aired about his dear friends.
  — Manuel Betancourt, Vulture, 1 Feb. 2024
• But a recent study found that many consumers wildly miscalculate what those percentages mean, especially when the percentages are greater than a hundred.
  — Lisa Ward, WSJ, 27 May 2022
• Without context, the forces driving our era of rapid change may be misunderstood—and our responses miscalculated.
  — Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024
• Without context, the forces driving our era of rapid change may be misunderstood—and our responses miscalculated.
  — Foreign Affairs, 21 Aug. 2023
• Yet for every cyclical swarm, a fraction of periodical cicadas inevitably miscalculate, crawling up from the depths four years off-cycle.
  — Eleanor Cummins, The New Republic, 11 May 2021
• High inflation has unnerved consumers, and the Federal Reserve could miscalculate in trying to combat it, triggering a crash in bubble-like stock and other asset markets.
  — Don Lee Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2022
• But several of those projects have recently hit the skids after executives miscalculated the impact that the pandemic and rising interest rates would have on supply chains.
  — Brad Plumer, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2023
• Also, the vaccine is stored in vials containing multiple doses, so providers might miscalculate the number of vials needed during a vaccination session.
  — Courtney Astolfi, cleveland, 26 Feb. 2021
• Many high-tech companies that went on hiring binges in 2022, as the economy accelerated out of the pandemic recession, miscalculated the longer-term demand for their products and services.
  — Christopher Rugaber, Fortune, 3 Feb. 2024
• For investors, the potential penalties for being on the wrong side of the trade — essentially, miscalculating the likelihood of a recession — are getting higher with every leg up in the S&P 500, which this week crossed into bull-market territory.
  — Lu Wang, Fortune, 9 June 2023
• The military’s response to Mr. Khan’s resurgent public support was bungled at best — and severely miscalculated at worst, analysts say.
  — Christina Goldbaum, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2024
• Regulators discovered that the insurer had miscalculated claims related to more than 1,000 births over a four-year period.
  — Maya Miller, ProPublica, 16 Nov. 2023
• The Obama administration argued its 2016 rule would close a loophole that let companies miscalculate royalty payments when mining on public land.
  — Abby Smith, Washington Examiner, 7 Aug. 2020
• Another example would be that the code generated by the generative AI turns out to be wrong and miscalculates things or sets the visualizations based on parameters that misleadingly portray the data.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 17 July 2023

Last Updated: 30 Oct 2024