as in mistake
a wrong judgment
treating her opponent as an intellectual lightweight was a serious miscalculation on her part
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Recent Examples of miscalculation
The risk, as always, is miscalculation—on both sides.
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Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Apr. 2025
Black American lives hung in the balance, the result of poor communication between state and federal agencies (due to a massive miscalculation of how bad the storm would be) and a slow and disappointing response from FEMA.
—Dominique Fluker, Essence, 15 Apr. 2025
Trump and Vance have made a serious strategic miscalculation in attempting to improve its relationship with the Kremlin at the expense of undermining its relationship with the EU.
—David McWilliams, Time, 9 Apr. 2025
What Went Wrong Similar to the types of mistakes that a human might make, the LLMs often employed logic errors, used false or unproven assumptions, at times aimlessly pursued a fruitless direction, and made basic algebraic and arithmetic miscalculations.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
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Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Apr. 2025
Black American lives hung in the balance, the result of poor communication between state and federal agencies (due to a massive miscalculation of how bad the storm would be) and a slow and disappointing response from FEMA.
—Dominique Fluker, Essence, 15 Apr. 2025
Trump and Vance have made a serious strategic miscalculation in attempting to improve its relationship with the Kremlin at the expense of undermining its relationship with the EU.
—David McWilliams, Time, 9 Apr. 2025
What Went Wrong Similar to the types of mistakes that a human might make, the LLMs often employed logic errors, used false or unproven assumptions, at times aimlessly pursued a fruitless direction, and made basic algebraic and arithmetic miscalculations.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for miscalculation
mistake
Noun
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Jamie Moraga, Franklin Revere NO: San Diego’s roads are in dire condition after years of deferred maintenance; drastically cutting the road-repair budget now would be a serious mistake.—
Phillip Molnar,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 May 2025
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Honeywell has learned from its mistakes, delivering a sensible forecast during its April 29 quarterly earnings report.—
Morgan Chittum,
CNBC,
9 May 2025
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“Miscalculation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/miscalculation. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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