miscuing

Definition of miscuingnext
present participle of miscue

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for miscuing
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
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“Miscuing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/miscuing. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.

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