as in to misname
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Recent Examples of miscall
Nearly every major polling outfit miscalled the 2016 Presidential race.
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Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2020
Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for miscall
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In the course of the initiative, Nigel Jeffries, MOLA’s ceramics specialist, has come to believe that witch bottles may have not only been miscategorized but misnamed: these bottles were likely medical objects, rather than magical ones.—
Geoff Manaugh,
The New Yorker,
31 Oct. 2019
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In some cases, police and lawyers inflict further harm by misgendering and misnaming victims.—
Kristin Lam,
USA TODAY,
20 Nov. 2019
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False positives are also common, Marlow said, as these types of systems have been known to misidentify broomsticks as rifles, and rulers for knives.—
Amanda Musa,
CNN,
1 Feb. 2025
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But the databases sometimes included outdated data, according to six officers, increasing the likelihood that officers would misidentify a civilian as a combatant.—
Patrick Kingsley,
New York Times,
26 Dec. 2024
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Our biased admiration for good fathers is misapplied to a species, such as the bald eagle, in which biparental care is the rule.—
Time,
Time,
17 June 2023
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First, if a bull market means to you that stocks are trending unequivocally upward, then, no, the bull market label is being misapplied right now.—
Jeff Sommer,
New York Times,
16 June 2023
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“Miscall.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/miscall. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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