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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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, 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
• 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
• Either side could easily miscalculate, the other side would respond more aggressively, and the ladder of escalation could easily begin.
  — James Stavridis, Time, 9 Mar. 2021
• But Washington miscalculated the extent to which Ukraine’s forces could be transformed into a Western-style fighting force in a short period — especially without giving Kyiv air power integral to modern militaries.
  — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2023
• The incident is the latest in a string of blunders by the district, which last month admitted miscalculating dozens of students’s grade-point averages, sending them inaccurate information on their eligibility for exam schools.
  — Naomi Martin, BostonGlobe.com, 15 May 2023
• Kicking off a presidential campaign on Twitter is an unconventional approach that drew criticism before the event, and the technical problems only will add to the perception that DeSantis miscalculated.
  — USA TODAY, 25 May 2023
• But the theater may have miscalculated Saturday attendance.
  — Brooks Barnes, New York Times, 24 July 2023
• The payment restart has been marked by issue after issue, including servicers miscalculating the monthly bill amounts and sending borrowers other incorrect payment information.
  — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 8 Jan. 2024
• These ever-changing variables, as well as underreported data on infections, hospitalizations and deaths, led models to miscalculate certain trends.
  — Elizabeth Landau, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2021

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024