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miscounting

verb

present participle of miscount

as in miscalculating

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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

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Warsh is mistaking the value of quiet that Waller has criticized publicly.

— John Tamny, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
Perreault-Magny said frightened and flustered migrants sometimes try to climb into his unmarked patrol pickup, mistaking it for a smuggler coming to collect them.

— Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 29 July 2026

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The combustion of Graham Platner’s candidacy in Maine is another blow to a Democratic Party trying to mend its reputation after bungling the 2024 presidential election.

— Editorial Board, Washington Post, 9 July 2026
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

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In 1893, Sunday school teacher Lizzie Borden was tried for allegedly murdering her father and stepmother with an axe inside the family home.

— Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 4 Aug. 2026
In a newer piece of casting, Sarah Paulson, who’s been filming season 13 of American Horror Story, will appear as Aileen Wuornos, a serial killer who was convicted of murdering seven men in Florida between 1989 and 1990.

— Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Aug. 2026

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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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