How to Use miscount in a Sentence

miscount

1 of 2 verb

• Carey appeared to miscount her steps on her run-up to the vault table, throwing her off.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2021
• An exhausted grad student may miscount the number of times two mice bump noses.
  — Celia Ford, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
• What none of these agencies found, of course, is any sign that election outcomes had been compromised or votes had been miscounted.
  — Chris Mueller, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2023
• Cepeda, too, sowed doubt about the results, saying that votes were miscounted and that there were discrepancies.
  — Raquel Coronell Uribe, NBC news, 1 June 2026
• The report also said Afroman's lawyer miscounted the money when it was being returned to him.
  — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 23 Feb. 2023
• The president made unfounded claims that election workers will miscount mail ballots.
  — Rachel Glickhouse, ProPublica, 4 Sep. 2020
• The sheriff, after a review, said evidence was miscounted but denied theft.
  — Andrew Graham may 28, Sacbee.com, 28 May 2026
• 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
• 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
• 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
• There are myriad reasons why a vote may be incorrectly rejected or miscounted.
  — Matthew Alvarez, The Mercury News, 9 May 2024
• That’s partly because Covid lockdowns increased the risk of miscounting college students and people with second homes.
  — The Wall Street Journal, Twin Cities, 28 Aug. 2025
• Water loss — the share leaked, miscounted or used by unauthorized customers — has also steadily, if stubbornly, fallen.
  — Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 July 2024
• The document also accused the crew of miscounting everyone who had returned from snorkeling.
  — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 4 Mar. 2023
• However, paying through a QR code minimizes the risk of payment errors and prevents miscounting cash or theft.
  — Nitin Gupta, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
• Detailed data on weather and emergence patterns might support that idea—or a different hypothesis about why some cicadas miscount the passing years.
  — Ian Graber-Stiehl, Science | AAAS, 1 June 2021
• 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
• This was also not the first time the WNBA has been in a scandal miscounting Caitlin Clark assists.
  — Jon Root Outkick, FOXNews.com, 17 May 2026
• Kennedy has downplayed the outbreak, even miscounting deaths, and has suggested remedies, such as vitamin A, to prevent measles that experts advise against.
  — Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2025
• Meanwhile, top language models frequently make mistakes that few people ever would, like miscounting the number of times the letter r occurs in strawberry.
  — Matthew Hutson, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Sep. 2025
• The tool, built to track inventory using computer vision, miscounted items and created shortages instead of solving them.
  — Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
• Prosecutors also suggested the poker player could have simply miscounted his earnings.
  — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2023
• However, the body's parliamentarian later determined that the votes had been miscounted.
  — Joseph Flaherty, Arkansas Online, 1 July 2026
• Adams County sheriff’s deputies miscounted money seized from rapper Afroman's home last year, investigators have concluded.
  — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 23 Feb. 2023
• By Afroman’s account, the officers left his house torn apart, cut his security video cords, took cash from his home — officials later announced that deputies had merely miscounted the money — and traumatized his kids.
  — Leah Asmelash, CNN Money, 19 Mar. 2026
• The sheriff's office has explained the discrepancy by saying deputies originally miscounted the money, which Newland took responsibility for on the stand.
  — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 19 Mar. 2026
• 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.
  — Matthew Alvarez, The Mercury News, 9 May 2024
• The Tools Have Actually Arrived Early AI models famously miscounted letters in words.
  — Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
• In February, Reuters, which first reported the discontinuation of the tool this week, cited Starbucks sources who said the app often miscounted or mislabeled items, failing to identify the presence of bottles on shelves.
  — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 28 May 2026
• An independent investigation that concluded in February found that officers had miscounted Afroman’s money while bagging it in his home, according to Fox19.
  — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2023

miscount

2 of 2 noun

• As for the remaining missing $10, a miscount of the second bag of cash could not be determined based on bodycam footage.
  — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 23 Feb. 2023
• David and Erin Clements claimed that the state’s voting tabulators are insecure and miscount votes.
  — Annie Gowen, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2022
• Bolt blamed confusion in the immediate aftermath for the miscount.
  — NBC News, 5 July 2020
• Carney said an investigation would determine how the breach and miscount occurred.
  — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 12 May 2023
• On the bright side, the miscount means more Americans have received booster shots than shown in official federal data.
  — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 19 Dec. 2021
• Depending on the location in Kentucky, the effects of the miscount were noticeable.
  — The Enquirer and Courier Journal, The Enquirer, 22 Nov. 2021
• This is the case whether the problem is a faulty electronic voting machine, a grievous miscount of paper ballots, or an attack on an online voting system.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Oct. 2016
• Due to such factors, the MDH could not determine the apparent miscount’s magnitude.
  — Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 30 Apr. 2026
• The 2000 election was plagued by a flawed ballot design and allegations of miscounts that led to legal controversies.
  — Rachel Barber, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2024
• And Estonia’s online voting system has never suffered a security breach or produced a miscount.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Oct. 2016
• Allegations of miscounts, court debates and logistical voting issues, including a faulty ballot design, were to blame for the delay.
  — Katie Wiseman, The Courier-Journal, 6 Nov. 2024
• That’s the number of states that the Census says had a significant population miscount during the decennial count, the Census Bureau said Thursday.
  — Ben Kamisar, NBC News, 20 May 2022
• The Joint Commission, a nonprofit organization that accredits hospitals, has similar recommendations, with suggestions for avoiding miscounts of surgical tools after staff lunch breaks or after shift changes.
  — Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News, 25 Jan. 2024
• For more than five years, Republicans who question the results of the 2020 election demanded to inspect the original ballots from Fulton County to validate their suspicions of miscounts, missing votes and fraud.
  — Mark Niesse For The Ajc, AJC.com, 13 Feb. 2026