How to Use miscalculation in a Sentence

miscalculation

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  • Then there was the miscalculation about how fast and big his new plants would grow.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2022
  • Pacheco made sure to point out the Jobe's pre-draft 3,000 rpm spin rate on his slider wasn't a miscalculation.
    — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 28 Feb. 2022
  • What appears in hindsight to have been a gross miscalculation made a lot more sense at the time.
    — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Kluber was one of the notable miscalculations of the Chaim Bloom era.
    — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Or maybe starting Gaddis will turn out to be a major miscalculation that burns the Guardians in the long run.
    — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 16 Sep. 2022
  • There's never any, any miscalculation about what each of us, where each of us stand.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 14 Nov. 2022
  • In its day, the LM002 was a freak, an epic miscalculation by a brand that really couldn't afford a dud.
    — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 4 Sep. 2023
  • The miscalculation came back to haunt FTX this past weekend in a deluge of withdrawals by users.
    — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 10 Nov. 2022
  • The chances for miscalculation in that scenario are high.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2022
  • People make mistakes and miscalculations in this world, all the time.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 10 May 2023
  • But, as the strike in Jordan showed, with any military action comes the chance of miscalculation.
    — Julian E. Barnes, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
  • For months, though, there have been warnings that the region is one miscalculation away from calamity.
    — Shane Harris, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2024
  • And that - in more than anything else is what's causing a lot of the uncertainty and risk of miscalculation that could lead to the conflict that nobody wants.
    — CBS News, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Everyone knows there won’t be a sixth, but the fact that USC is having to endure the fifth was a major miscalculation by Riley.
    — J. Brady McCollough, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2023
  • Musk’s deal was a miscalculation on his part—as evidenced by his willingness to air his dirty laundry in court to get out of it.
    — Scott Nover, Quartz, 2 Oct. 2022
  • His fling with Alex doesn't begin until episode 2, which seems like a grave miscalculation.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 25 Apr. 2023
  • The risk of miscalculation is high, however, and even the more hopeful analysts are concerned about the threat of conflict.
    — Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2021
  • But despite Richards’ warnings of miscalculations, Doom forged ahead and his machine blew up in his face, scarring it.
    — Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Refuse to take on an expense due to someone else’s miscalculation.
    — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 2 Jan. 2024
  • The snub was a miscalculation that later overtures to Tesla failed to overcome, the official said.
    — Faiz Siddiqui, Washington Post, 29 July 2024
  • The miscalculation led to mistakes no less costly in lives for the Russian army than the faulty tactics of tank operators who steered into bogs.
    — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 7 May 2022
  • Sometimes a simple miscalculation can cause a crew to lose command of a ship – or cause an otherwise seaworthy ship to hit a bridge.
    — USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2024
  • But May's inexperience with navigating across an ocean and the miscalculation on the plane forced a change of plan.
    — USA Today, 29 July 2021
  • Dealing for the Duke product was a clear miscalculation from team president Leon Rose.
    — Stefan Bondy, Hartford Courant, 6 Dec. 2022
  • The attack may prove to be a miscalculation that leads to dangerous outcomes, not just for Israel but also for the entire region.
    — Dalia Dassa Kaye, Foreign Affairs, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Sailing long distances alone means one wrong step, one miscalculation, one stroke of bad luck can mean catastrophe.
    — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 28 July 2023
  • Hillary Clinton didn’t hold an event in the state known as America’s Dairyland, a miscalculation that Biden seems hellbent on avoiding.
    — Josh Wingrove, Bloomberg.com, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Clothing also came out quite well, with no signs of any miscalculations in the different layers.
    — Rolling Stone, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Analysts have long warned that a miscalculation in the South China Sea could quickly spiral into a damaging regional conflict between the world’s two largest economies and that a lack of communication could compound those risks.
    — Simone McCarthy, CNN, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Today, scenario-planning based on factors derived from the assumption of a stable climate will lead to under-protection of assets and miscalculations of operating costs, market size, and even customer preferences.
    — Lynn Schenk alison Smart, Harvard Business Review, 4 Oct. 2024

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