as in to miscalculate
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Recent Examples of miscount
However, paying through a QR code minimizes the risk of payment errors and prevents miscounting cash or theft.
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Nitin Gupta,
Forbes,
16 Oct. 2024
Water loss — the share leaked, miscounted or used by unauthorized customers — has also steadily, if stubbornly, fallen.
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Jaime Moore-Carrillo,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
19 July 2024
There are myriad reasons why a vote may be incorrectly rejected or miscounted.
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Matthew Alvarez,
The Mercury News,
9 May 2024
An exhausted grad student may miscount the number of times two mice bump noses.
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Celia Ford,
Vox,
7 Dec. 2018
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Nitin Gupta,
Forbes,
16 Oct. 2024
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
There are myriad reasons why a vote may be incorrectly rejected or miscounted.
—
Matthew Alvarez,
The Mercury News,
9 May 2024
An exhausted grad student may miscount the number of times two mice bump noses.
—
Celia Ford,
Vox,
7 Dec. 2018
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for miscount
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Yet the company seems to continually miscalculate the extent to which this dynamic will jeopardize its business.
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Undeniably, Putin and associates miscalculated how easily Russia’s military would be able to occupy and take control of Ukraine, repeating Cold War successes.
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The catered lunch and the free wellbeing app are not the problem; mistaking them for the work being worth doing is.
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The current podcasting landscape, to him, already mistakes access for art.
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Meanwhile, Scheffler misjudged his approach and scrambled to save par.
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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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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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“Miscount.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/miscount. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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