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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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
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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
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The woman mistook him for an Uber driver and got in his car, according to deputies.—
Julia Marnin,
Miami Herald,
19 Oct. 2025
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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
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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
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On one occasion, a blunt-nosed viper misjudged the distance to its prey.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
23 Oct. 2025
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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
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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
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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
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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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