miscalculate
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It is very easy to miscalculate cutting weight.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2025
Because of negativity bias, we miscalculate the upsides and downsides of social life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2024
Then I mentioned to him what the veteran reporter had said to me about the risk that “confirmation bias” was yet again causing the press corps to miscalculate Trump’s odds of survival.
From Slate ● May 20, 2024
Every time any actor decides to roll the iron dice of war, there is a significant chance that they are going to miscalculate.
From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2024
I ain’t partial to swords—the time on the reverse is too long if you miscalculate your swing—but it’s better than a couple of rusty gardening blades.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
But if it miscalculates and raises rates too high or too fast, history suggests it could trigger a recession.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 18, 2018
A system that consistently miscalculates energy use risks being falsely reassuring or forcing the user into an unnecessarily restrictive diet.
From The Verge ● Jun. 3, 2014
Even when the team indisputably miscalculates, as when the Spurs signed Richard Jefferson to a high-dollar multiyear deal, the situation is dealt with quietly and efficiently.
From Slate ● May 29, 2012
The risk inherent in all this, however, is that someone on either side miscalculates and triggers a full-blown conflict.
From Reuters ● Jan. 25, 2012
The engineer who miscalculates the strength of materials, builds a bridge that breaks down.
From Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Herbert Spencer
“I see this increasingly as a contest of miscalculated speed,” Kahalzadeh said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Umanksy points to Measure ULA, the voter-approved tax widely referred to as the “mansion tax,” as an example of miscalculated promised outcomes.
From MarketWatch ● May 22, 2026
But regardless of the intention, Fairhope miscalculated in prosecuting Gamble.
From Slate ● May 4, 2026
Drake was due to play in Amsterdam two days after the final Manchester show, but his team had miscalculated the time it would take to ship the stage across the North Sea.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026
But he had miscalculated, for I won the election with an overwhelming majority.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
But, for her, the real win was in shining a light on the "systemic" miscalculating of PT holiday pay by Nuffield Health.
From BBC ● May 31, 2026
Plus, President Trump says Iran is miscalculating his urgency to end the war, and the administration’s new bank accounts for children goes live.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
Ford was accused of misleading the EPA by intentionally miscalculating factors used in certification testing.
From Reuters ● Apr. 21, 2023
News and World Report college rankings, after admitting to miscalculating data in its submissions to the ratings.
From New York Times ● Sep. 13, 2022
The wolves sprang, but, miscalculating my speed, they fell behind, as I glided out upon the river!
From The New McGuffey Fourth Reader by William Holmes McGuffey
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