as in mistake
an unintentional departure from truth or accuracy
the slightest miscue could make the trapeze artist lose his grip and fall to the mat below
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Recent Examples of miscue
Justice Delos Santos, The Mercury News, 17 Feb. 2025
By the time the period ended, Bryant had caused nine miscues to take a 51-44 cushion into the fourth.
—Erick Taylor, arkansasonline.com, 8 Feb. 2025
Nathan Canilao, The Mercury News, 30 May 2024
The Sea Lions went 4-for-12 from 3-point range in the first half and shot one free throw (Barnes made it) while turning it over seven times, miscues the visitors turned into nine points.
—Ivan Carter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2024
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Noun
To Adames, the miscues were a matter of confidence.
—Justice Delos Santos, The Mercury News, 17 Feb. 2025
By the time the period ended, Bryant had caused nine miscues to take a 51-44 cushion into the fourth.
—Erick Taylor, arkansasonline.com, 8 Feb. 2025
Verb
While Granada capitalized on De La Salle miscues, the Matadors’ defense played a near-flawless game.
—Nathan Canilao, The Mercury News, 30 May 2024
The Sea Lions went 4-for-12 from 3-point range in the first half and shot one free throw (Barnes made it) while turning it over seven times, miscues the visitors turned into nine points.
—Ivan Carter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for miscue
Noun
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The lawsuit also alleges that another member had made the same mistake a few weeks later with no punishment.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
27 Feb. 2025
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Squandering these opportunities would be a huge mistake for any business that wants to continually drive CX improvements.—
Bernard Marr,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
Verb
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The show still leans too heavily on hallucinations, and the early episodes misjudge what’s appealing to the viewers (Alexa Barajas’ Mari moves to the center of the wilderness action, while there’s an entire B-story in the present about Shauna’s family karma).—
Proma Khosla,
IndieWire,
14 Feb. 2025
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Analysis is valuable to prevent biases like stereotyping and misjudging probabilities, while intuition is valuable for creativity and rapid adaptation to complex problems.—
Hulan Hagen,
Forbes,
26 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Still, many in Kenya condemned the talks as a political blunder by President William Ruto, and called on him to reverse course.—
Declan Walsh,
New York Times,
23 Feb. 2025
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The verdict came after a blunder by Miami-Dade state prosecutors, who felt the need to apologize to jurors for not identifying a purse on the couch next to where Knighton was sitting in Blount’s apartment when she was shot.—
Charles Rabin,
Miami Herald,
18 Feb. 2025
Verb
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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
Noun
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That's detected by the cerebellum, and its goal is to minimize that error signal.—
Tim Stevens,
Ars Technica,
3 Mar. 2025
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The survey polled 1,033 adults via web, phone and field interviews from Feb. 4 -12 and had a margin of error of plus or minus 4.2 percentage points.—
Lia Russell,
Sacramento Bee,
3 Mar. 2025
Verb
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The previous White House botched the August 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan, ushering the Taliban back into power.—
Bloomberg Opinion,
Twin Cities,
21 Feb. 2025
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Jack Ryan in Patriot Games (1992) and Clear and Present Danger (1994) Did Alec Baldwin botch the negotiations to continue playing Jack Ryan after The Hunt for Red October, or did Paramount want to replace him with Ford, a much bigger name?—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
18 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Yet cops and doctors still bungled the follow-up and compounded the survivor’s distress.—
Jessica Winter,
The New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2025
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Gaga hasn’t released a pop album since 2020’s Chromatica, which saw its release strategy get bungled by the pandemic.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
22 Oct. 2024
Verb
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There’s been a lot of complaining about organizational chaos, miscounted hotel stars, and the loudest men in the group chat.—
Kassondra Cloos,
Outside Online,
12 Feb. 2025
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However, paying through a QR code minimizes the risk of payment errors and prevents miscounting cash or theft.—
Nitin Gupta,
Forbes,
16 Oct. 2024
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“Miscue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/miscue. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.
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