as in to miscalculate
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Recent Examples of miscount
Even though voting machines have become more sophisticated and registrars’ offices have become better at verifying signatures, a small number of ballots are miscounted in every election.
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Matthew Alvarez, The Mercury News, 9 May 2024
At the start of the pandemic health workers may have miscounted a single infection as two due to a lack of understanding of how long the virus stayed in a person's body, Dixon said.
—Binghui Huang, The Indianapolis Star, 26 Mar. 2024
There were baseless claims that people had fabricated votes and that officials had miscounted and skewed the results.
—David Klepper and Huizhong Wu, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Feb. 2024
The video showing the election worker miscounting votes had been selectively edited, fact-checkers found.
—David Klepper and Huizhong Wu, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Feb. 2024
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Matthew Alvarez, The Mercury News, 9 May 2024
At the start of the pandemic health workers may have miscounted a single infection as two due to a lack of understanding of how long the virus stayed in a person's body, Dixon said.
—Binghui Huang, The Indianapolis Star, 26 Mar. 2024
There were baseless claims that people had fabricated votes and that officials had miscounted and skewed the results.
—David Klepper and Huizhong Wu, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Feb. 2024
The video showing the election worker miscounting votes had been selectively edited, fact-checkers found.
—David Klepper and Huizhong Wu, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Feb. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for miscount
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The company and bankers dramatically miscalculated the market, overestimating the natural gas Trump bump.—
Lucinda Shen,
Axios,
24 Jan. 2025
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Benigno Alarcón, a professor of Politics at Caracas’s Andrés Bello Catholic University, says Maduro’s message might have been miscalculated.—
Stefano Pozzebon,
CNN,
20 Jan. 2025
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The new species was mistaken as the Quichua porcupine, or Coendou quichua, for decades.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
13 Feb. 2025
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Breathless had started as a somewhat conventional project that Godard turned into an irreverent formal free-for-all; the noirish, plaintive Le petit soldat had enough genre elements to mistake it for something more traditional.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
7 Feb. 2025
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Many other Pilates enthusiasts commented and shared how some can misjudge what the workout really is.—
Raul A. Reyes,
Newsweek,
22 Jan. 2025
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Even Dani has a crummy night-to-day at the office, spectacularly misjudging the mark in her attempt to seduce Wallace and ultimately getting her ass kicked by Helen.—
Sophie Brookover,
Vulture,
6 Dec. 2024
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Las Vegas botched a snap and lost a fumble at the end of Week 13; The Chiefs’ Matthew Wright doinked a game-winning 31-yard field goal through the uprights in Week 14.—
Peter Sblendorio,
New York Daily News,
9 Feb. 2025
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After botching a critical late-game layup look in a Game 6 second-round playoff series loss to the Atlanta Hawks, Simmons sat out the start of the subsequent 2021-22 season while demanding to be traded.—
Alex Kirschenbaum,
Newsweek,
8 Feb. 2025
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Two brothers who were convicted in the 1991 rape and murder of a tourist in Hawaii filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday claiming that the police had framed them and then bungled an investigation that could have brought the true killer to justice.—
Simon J. Levien,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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Michel has recently pursued his appeal process in part by arguing the incompetence of his trial attorney, who garnered headlines for bungling closing arguments through misuse of an artificial intelligence program.—
Gary Baum,
The Hollywood Reporter,
30 Jan. 2025
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“Miscount.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/miscount. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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