miscounting

present participle of miscount

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Verb
  • Rather than collisions caused by surrounding traffic, these incidents involved the vehicle misjudging objects directly in its path.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 16 May 2026
  • Red Bull driver Isack Hadjar hit the barriers after misjudging a chicane.
    Sahil Kapur, NBC news, 3 May 2026
Verb
  • The catered lunch and the free wellbeing app are not the problem; mistaking them for the work being worth doing is.
    Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • The cultural mistake is mistaking exposure and awareness for outcome.
    Daren Smith, IndieWire, 24 June 2026
Verb
  • 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.
    Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 29 Apr. 2026
  • And Kash Patel's FBI seems to be bungling the investigation at every step.
    K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 13 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Atlanta was out-everythinged in an 83-71 loss to the Indiana Fever on Thursday, botching a chance at a statement game.
    Brian Hamilton, New York Times, 5 June 2026
  • He was taken into custody at the scene, after botching several sobriety tests, body-cam footage shows.
    Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 14 May 2026
Verb
  • The ruling handed down on Tuesday affirmed the judgment of a May 2025 hearing presided over by Cuyahoga County judge Nancy Margaret Russo, the same judge who found Shirilla guilty of murdering her boyfriend, Dominic Russo (no relation) and their friend, Davion Flanagan, in a 2022 car crash.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 24 June 2026
  • Sam Worthington leads the series as David Burroughs, a father serving a life sentence for murdering his own son five years ago.
    Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 23 June 2026
Verb
  • Blade grinders function more like blenders, frantically whirring in circles, mangling the beans, and tossing them all over the grinding chamber.
    Noah Kaufman, Bon Appetit Magazine, 20 May 2026
  • Where was Michael Hill, the commissioner’s office executive serving as Team USA’s general manager, while his manager was mangling the stakes of the situation?
    Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 12 Mar. 2026
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“Miscounting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/miscounting. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.

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