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.
—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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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
Verb
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Iran should not miscalculate again.—
Michelle Stoddart,
ABC News,
26 Mar. 2026
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The outlet reported this week that Trump and his advisors miscalculated Iran’s response to the war, and scooped an initial Pentagon assessment pointing blame at the U.S. for a strike that killed scores of girls at a school early in the war.—
Sarah Davis,
The Hill,
13 Mar. 2026
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The market focuses on the median dot and often mistakes it for a plan, even though they are derived from 19 separate forecasts and not curated into a policy forecast by the committee.—
Steve Liesman,Matt Peterson,
CNBC,
27 Mar. 2026
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The result is, at best, a category error; at worst, a moral panic—mistaking architecture for art, and art for authority.—
Julian Rose,
Artforum,
26 Mar. 2026
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Overpaying for early acquisitions, misjudging theatrical performance, or relying on complex financing structures can all compound quickly in a market with thin margins and unpredictable returns.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
23 Mar. 2026
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But their top officials do not always agree, and some say the discord has hurt how well the agencies can serve patients and led the call center to repeatedly misjudge the severity of some calls.—
Jenny Gathright,
Washington Post,
19 Mar. 2026
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Center fielder Oneil Cruz botched consecutive plays in the first inning, helping the Mets score five runs off a surprisingly ineffective Skenes (0-1), matching his career high.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
27 Mar. 2026
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In a federal lawsuit filed this month seeking millions in damages, Lebohang Morake, known as Lebo M, accused Zimbabwean comedian Learnmore Jonasi of intentionally botching the translation of the lyrics, central to both the Disney films and the musical theater adaptations.—
Emily St. Martin,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Mar. 2026
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Apollo’s acquisition came after Verizon Communications bought Yahoo’s online operations in 2017 and then bungled an attempt to blend those services into AOL, another internet pioneer.—
Michael Liedtke,
Fortune,
29 Mar. 2026
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Apollo's acquisition came after Verizon Communications bought Yahoo's online operations in 2017 and then bungled an attempt to blend those services into AOL, another internet pioneer.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
27 Mar. 2026
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“Miscount.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/miscount. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.
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