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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What the company has miscalculated is how it’s communicated with the Trump administration — and the general public — about its business.
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Willingness to fight is famously fickle: the United States massively miscalculated the morale of the Afghan Taliban and of Ukraine.
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Loaded with bacon and four types of beans, this side is so hearty some might mistake it for the main course.
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While the market often panics over such developments, mistaking copies for a shift in leadership, this incident actually underscores the significant lead held by American frontier AI labs.
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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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Latvian intelligence argues that Putin is not only looking for ways to pressure NATO countries to back off Ukraine, but may also be receiving distorted assessments from inside his own system — raising the risk that Russia could misjudge Western resolve.
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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 30 Jun. 2026.
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