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miscalculated

verb

past tense of miscalculate

as in misunderstood

to make an incorrect judgment regarding they miscalculated how difficult the mountainous trek would be

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Either dark energy is a real phenomenon, causing the universe to grow bigger at a faster and faster rate, or there is no dark energy at all, and scientists have somehow misunderstood the laws of gravity at cosmic scales.

— Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 1 July 2026
The county argues the grand jury fundamentally misunderstood what happened before the explosion, saying its investigation relied on speculation instead of evidence and wrongly blamed county officials for a criminal enterprise prosecutors say was built on years of deception.

— Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 23 June 2026

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The problem is not that any single measure has collapsed, but that the entire framework has begun to reveal internal contradictions its designers underestimated.

— Wesley Alexander Hill, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
Valerian both underestimated the enemy and overestimated Roman military strength.

— Robin Wright, New Yorker, 17 July 2026

Definition of underestimated

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Ginsburg misjudged an unknowable future; Biden failed to respond to a visible present.

— Michael Sonnenfeldt, Fortune, 19 July 2026
Rice, back on a hot streak, crushed a 2-2 curveball that went 376 feet — clanking off the wall in center field as Dylan Crews misjudged the wall, crashing into it while trying to make the catch.

— Brendan Kuty, New York Times, 13 July 2026

Definition of misjudged

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Five seconds later, Trujillo was also hit — shot by an officer who, according to Chandler Police, mistook Trujillo for the suspect.

— Laura Geller, CBS News, 13 July 2026
Foster’s songs became ubiquitous—people sometimes mistook them for folk songs even during his lifetime—and were performed everywhere from back porches to opera houses, in every genre imaginable.

— David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 2 July 2026

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