miscount

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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. 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 See All Example Sentences for miscount
Recent Examples of Synonyms for miscount
Verb
  • The movie, to my eyes, badly miscalculates the ratio of paradise to despoilment, indulging the latter at the expense of the former.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2025
  • The Carriers also argue that the Commission misinterpreted the Communications Act, miscalculated the penalties, and violated the Seventh Amendment by not affording them a jury trial.
    Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 18 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The woman mistook him for an Uber driver and got in his car, according to deputies.
    Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Though not much is known about their relationship, the famed Sex and the City actress had played into a funny moment when 60 Minutes mistook her for Justin's mother, Margaret, in a retrospective.
    Diane J. Cho, PEOPLE, 19 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • After months marked by corruption, violence, and the open perversion of law, to gasp in outrage at the loss of a few tons of masonry and mortar might seem oddly misjudged.
    Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2025
  • On one occasion, a blunt-nosed viper misjudged the distance to its prey.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Meanwhile, the show has hosted plenty of controversial musical performances, such as NBC removing upside-down American flags from Rage Against the Machine’s amps in 1996 to Ashlee Simpson’s botched vocal performance in 2004.
    William Earl, Variety, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Made all the worse, that final play by Miami was botched by a mistake that led to the pickoff.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The misfiring of Smashing Machine comes in the wake of A24 bungling the opening of horror-comedy, Death of a Unicorn, back in the spring, which after a receptive world premiere at SXSW with Wednesday megastar, Jenna Ortega, tanked with a $5.7M opening and final $12.8M domestic.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2025
  • One day, calling kids up to get pizza for a class lunch, the teacher repeatedly and purposely bungled her name.
    Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025

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“Miscount.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/miscount. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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