miscounting

Definition of miscountingnext
present participle of miscount

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for miscounting
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 problem is mistaking a large platform — or a fluent AI — for a qualified one, and letting that mistake drive decisions that actually matter.
    Sarah Hernholm, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • No one’s mistaking this for My Left Foot.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 May 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
  • 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
  • In the probable cause affidavit filed at the time, prosecutors accused the mother of three of spiking her husband's drink with a lethal dose of the drug less than three weeks after botching her initial attempt to kill him on Valentine's Day.
    Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 14 May 2026
Verb
  • Worthington plays David Burroughs, a man wrongfully serving a life sentence for murdering his son.
    Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
  • Hunter was convicted of murdering Green — who knew him only as his alias, Michael Berry — 24 years after her body was found in the trunk of her own car in the parking lot of a Walgreen’s store in Sanford.
    Cristóbal Reyes, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 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 5 Jun. 2026.

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