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
Steve Brand,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
2 June 2026
Henke forced a flyout to left field to keep the score tied, and Cambridge took over from there with the help of Lincoln-Sudbury miscues.
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Tom Mulherin,
Boston Herald,
2 June 2026
Ivan Carter,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Feb. 2025
This wayward pass from Burn was presumably intended for right-back Tino Livramento, but was miscued and trickled out of play.
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Michael Cox,
The Athletic,
19 Jan. 2025
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Noun
Instead, a rare infield miscue led to two more runs and that proved too big of an obstacle to overcome.
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Steve Brand,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
2 June 2026
Henke forced a flyout to left field to keep the score tied, and Cambridge took over from there with the help of Lincoln-Sudbury miscues.
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Tom Mulherin,
Boston Herald,
2 June 2026
Verb
The Aggies went 4 of 17 from 3-point range and turned it over 14 times, miscues the Tritons converted into 26 points.
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Ivan Carter,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Feb. 2025
This wayward pass from Burn was presumably intended for right-back Tino Livramento, but was miscued and trickled out of play.
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Michael Cox,
The Athletic,
19 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for miscue
Noun
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The Dodgers took full advantage of the Padres’ defensive mistakes to jump-start their offense.
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Bad luck happens, but preventable mistakes almost always cause road problems.
Verb
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Koulibaly misjudged a clearance and goalkeeper Edouard Mendy was unable to keep out substitute Marcus Pedersen’s rasping shot to give Norway the lead close to halftime.
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Latvian intelligence argues that Putin is not only looking for ways to pressure NATO countries to back off Ukraine, but may also be receiving distorted assessments from inside his own system — raising the risk that Russia could misjudge Western resolve.
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Colorado's rally offset a pair of baserunning blunders that ended the eighth.
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One Republican senator calling this the worst foreign policy blunder in decades.
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What the company has miscalculated is how it’s communicated with the Trump administration — and the general public — about its business.
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Willingness to fight is famously fickle: the United States massively miscalculated the morale of the Afghan Taliban and of Ukraine.
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With Yerry De los Santos also fumbling a bunt in the eighth, the Yanks tallied a season-high four errors on the night.
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Michael Conforto, Alex Bregman and Ian Happ had RBI hits in the sixth, when the Cubs’ runs were unearned thanks to a pair of errors.
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But the software botched or skipped hundreds of names, the Arizona Republic, part of the USA TODAY Network, reported.
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Chisholm's followed with a liner off the base of the wall in right before scoring when second baseman Travis Bazzana botched a grounder.
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For now, the press still sometimes bungled his name as Harry.
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San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan, who polled at 5% in the CBS survey, accused Becerra of bungling the federal government’s response to COVID-19, mpox and the influx in child migrants under former President Joe Biden.
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That’s partly because Covid lockdowns increased the risk of miscounting college students and people with second homes.
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But New York Attorney General Letitia James found his administration significantly miscounted the number of nursing home deaths.
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“Miscue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/miscue. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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