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miscalculation
noun as in misestimate
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak match
Example Sentences
Asked whether the poison dose had been miscalculated, he said operatives had “added a bit more” to be sure.
If you hadn’t seemed too enamored of him before the breakup, well, perhaps you’d just miscalculated your feelings.
Conventional aircraft always take off with a bit of fuel to spare, but they can always make an emergency landing if they miscalculate.
They plainly miscalculated both the BA and Marriott fines by a huge margin, and they don’t really deny it.
Her slight miscalculation of how to fix the situation leads to her driving around the gas pump.
A bigger miscalculation is the off-screen death of Arnold Rothstein.
That miscalculation could mean serious trouble in terms of actuarial soundness.
What they most have to fear is their own wimpiness –-or miscalculation.
We left off with Cyrus making a grave miscalculation as his chief of staff.
They had miscalculated their plans for conquest, and from that miscalculation arises our good fortune.
He made a miscalculation during the forenoon and received warning; a second offense would mean punishment.
Napoleon made a miscalculation, as most critics think, in giving Grouchy so large a force.
The cause may have been physical or it may have been moral, but it was probably a political miscalculation.
Ignorance of this fact has very frequently led to a miscalculation of the time of confinement.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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