How to Use miscalculation in a Sentence

miscalculation

noun

• Then there was the miscalculation about how fast and big his new plants would grow.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2022
• Pacheco made sure to point out the Jobe's pre-draft 3,000 rpm spin rate on his slider wasn't a miscalculation.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 28 Feb. 2022
• What appears in hindsight to have been a gross miscalculation made a lot more sense at the time.
  — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 11 Aug. 2022
• Kluber was one of the notable miscalculations of the Chaim Bloom era.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2023
• Or maybe starting Gaddis will turn out to be a major miscalculation that burns the Guardians in the long run.
  — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 16 Sep. 2022
• There's never any, any miscalculation about what each of us, where each of us stand.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 14 Nov. 2022
• In its day, the LM002 was a freak, an epic miscalculation by a brand that really couldn't afford a dud.
  — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 4 Sep. 2023
• The miscalculation came back to haunt FTX this past weekend in a deluge of withdrawals by users.
  — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 10 Nov. 2022
• The chances for miscalculation in that scenario are high.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2022
• People make mistakes and miscalculations in this world, all the time.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 10 May 2023
• But, as the strike in Jordan showed, with any military action comes the chance of miscalculation.
  — Julian E. Barnes, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
• For months, though, there have been warnings that the region is one miscalculation away from calamity.
  — Shane Harris, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2024
• And that - in more than anything else is what's causing a lot of the uncertainty and risk of miscalculation that could lead to the conflict that nobody wants.
  — CBS News, 10 Sep. 2023
• Everyone knows there won’t be a sixth, but the fact that USC is having to endure the fifth was a major miscalculation by Riley.
  — J. Brady McCollough, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2023
• Musk’s deal was a miscalculation on his part—as evidenced by his willingness to air his dirty laundry in court to get out of it.
  — Scott Nover, Quartz, 2 Oct. 2022
• His fling with Alex doesn't begin until episode 2, which seems like a grave miscalculation.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 25 Apr. 2023
• The risk of miscalculation is high, however, and even the more hopeful analysts are concerned about the threat of conflict.
  — Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2021
• Refuse to take on an expense due to someone else’s miscalculation.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 2 Jan. 2024
• The snub was a miscalculation that later overtures to Tesla failed to overcome, the official said.
  — Faiz Siddiqui, Washington Post, 29 July 2024
• The miscalculation led to mistakes no less costly in lives for the Russian army than the faulty tactics of tank operators who steered into bogs.
  — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 7 May 2022
• Sometimes a simple miscalculation can cause a crew to lose command of a ship – or cause an otherwise seaworthy ship to hit a bridge.
  — USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2024
• But May's inexperience with navigating across an ocean and the miscalculation on the plane forced a change of plan.
  — USA Today, 29 July 2021
• Dealing for the Duke product was a clear miscalculation from team president Leon Rose.
  — Stefan Bondy, Hartford Courant, 6 Dec. 2022
• The attack may prove to be a miscalculation that leads to dangerous outcomes, not just for Israel but also for the entire region.
  — Dalia Dassa Kaye, Foreign Affairs, 4 Apr. 2024
• Sailing long distances alone means one wrong step, one miscalculation, one stroke of bad luck can mean catastrophe.
  — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 28 July 2023
• Hillary Clinton didn’t hold an event in the state known as America’s Dairyland, a miscalculation that Biden seems hellbent on avoiding.
  — Josh Wingrove, Bloomberg.com, 10 Feb. 2023
• In the meantime, the chance of a miscalculation triggering a wider confrontation appears high.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2023
• There is a lot of potential for things to go wrong or for there to be a dramatic miscalculation on either side when relying on those across the aisle to provide the necessary votes.
  — Chad Pergram, Fox News, 30 May 2023
• These threatening phone calls were ineffectual machismo, and a gross miscalculation of the forces that had been stirred up.
  — John Leland, SPIN, 25 Feb. 2023
• This simply accentuates the risk of miscalculation, or of actions taken to satisfy selfish, insular concerns, rather than a wider regional impact.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 31 July 2024

Last Updated: 23 Sep 2024