miscounted

verb

past tense of miscount
as in miscalculated

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  1. misjudged
  2. mistook
Verb
  • Ginsburg misjudged an unknowable future; Biden failed to respond to a visible present.
    — Michael Sonnenfeldt, Fortune, 19 July 2026
  • Rice, back on a hot streak, crushed a 2-2 curveball that went 376 feet — clanking off the wall in center field as Dylan Crews misjudged the wall, crashing into it while trying to make the catch.
    — Brendan Kuty, New York Times, 13 July 2026
Definition of misjudged
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  • Five seconds later, Trujillo was also hit — shot by an officer who, according to Chandler Police, mistook Trujillo for the suspect.
    — Laura Geller, CBS News, 13 July 2026
  • Foster’s songs became ubiquitous—people sometimes mistook them for folk songs even during his lifetime—and were performed everywhere from back porches to opera houses, in every genre imaginable.
    — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 2 July 2026
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