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.
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Jaime Moore-Carrillo,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
19 July 2024
There are myriad reasons why a vote may be incorrectly rejected or miscounted.
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Matthew Alvarez,
The Mercury News,
9 May 2024
An exhausted grad student may miscount the number of times two mice bump noses.
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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
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Yet the company seems to continually miscalculate the extent to which this dynamic will jeopardize its business.
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Undeniably, Putin and associates miscalculated how easily Russia’s military would be able to occupy and take control of Ukraine, repeating Cold War successes.
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The catered lunch and the free wellbeing app are not the problem; mistaking them for the work being worth doing is.
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The current podcasting landscape, to him, already mistakes access for art.
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Meanwhile, Scheffler misjudged his approach and scrambled to save par.
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Koulibaly misjudged a clearance and goalkeeper Edouard Mendy was unable to keep out substitute Marcus Pedersen’s rasping shot to give Norway the lead close to halftime.
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When her plastic surgeon father botches a celebrity nose job at his practice, her parents decide to move from Bel-Air to Seattle.
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The Boston southpaw didn’t permit a baserunner until Spencer Jones, who botched a ball in center field a half-inning later, singled in the sixth inning.
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Kylian Mbappe, Romelu Lukaku and Darwin Nunez are some names at the World Cup who have previously bungled a knee slide celebration by diving into the ground, rather than trying to sling themselves along it.
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For now, the press still sometimes bungled his name as Harry.
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“Miscount.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/miscount. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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