How to Use miscalculate in a Sentence

miscalculate

verb
  • Men are not always at fault for miscalculating their shoe size.
    — Leah Asmelash, CNN Money, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Iran should not miscalculate again.
    — Michelle Stoddart, ABC News, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Of course, the autocrats also could miscalculate in this game.
    — Gerald F. Seib, WSJ, 10 Jan. 2022
  • But the banks also miscalculated by putting a limit on how high those rates could rise—the foot fault that gives Musk his leverage.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Starliner miscalculated its location in space due to a glitch caused by a faulty mission elapsed timer.
    — Passant Rabie / Gizmodo, Quartz, 2 May 2024
  • If slow-slip motion is missed, researchers may miscalculate where the strains are on a fault—and how strong a quake that fault can potentially produce.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 26 May 2021
  • More players mean more scenarios for people to miscalculate.
    — Andreas Kluth, Twin Cities, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Every performance is miscalculated, full of screeching, bug-eyed mugging and loudly played to the back of the house.
    — Josh Bell, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Too often, a high-risk plan has been miscalculated, and opponents have punished Postecoglou's men.
    — Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Gage also miscalculated on the matter of disarming the colonists.
    — David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Apr. 2025
  • The filing argues that Nathan miscalculated, levying too harsh a prison sentence.
    — Lauren Del Valle, CNN, 1 Mar. 2023
  • As demand grew, however, there were signs the industry had vastly miscalculated the cost of its products.
    — Jonel Aleccia, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2023
  • And if Tehran is serious, its leaders may be gravely miscalculating.
    — Suzanne Maloney, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Thousands of orders that used to auto-flow directly to the warehouse floor for same-day shipping now often miscalculate tariff costs.
    — Alina Selyukh, NPR, 24 Apr. 2025
  • As a result, a remote smart parking assist feature that miscalculates stopping distances may increase the risk of a crash, the report said.
    — Ahjané Forbes, USA TODAY, 23 Sep. 2024
  • The movie, to my eyes, badly miscalculates the ratio of paradise to despoilment, indulging the latter at the expense of the former.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2025
  • That said, duplicitous agents might undersell the severity of an issue, and honest ones can miscalculate the cost.
    — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Dec. 2021
  • One risk is that the pilots will miscalculate which way the other aircraft is moving; another is identifying the wrong aircraft.
    — Kate Kelly, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2025
  • Without context, the forces driving our era of rapid change may be misunderstood—and our responses miscalculated.
    — Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024
  • Without context, the forces driving our era of rapid change may be misunderstood—and our responses miscalculated.
    — Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024
  • The Prime release should play great at any scale while its stars are crossed at one another, but miscalculates their chemistry in a gratuitous and slightly icky epilogue.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 29 Jan. 2025
  • For the first half-century of the Super Bowl era, teams were simply miscalculating the risk versus reward of going for it.
    — Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 28 Nov. 2024
  • In Ukraine, Putin seems also to have miscalculated the strength of local opposition.
    — Gregory A. Daddis, The Conversation, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Nobody could have predicted just how badly Scott miscalculated the conference owning all of its third-tier broadcast rights.
    — J. Brady McCollough, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2023
  • But a recent study found that many consumers wildly miscalculate what those percentages mean, especially when the percentages are greater than a hundred.
    — Lisa Ward, WSJ, 27 May 2022
  • Florine adds that one element of visiting the park that people miscalculate is the frequency of summer afternoon rainstorms.
    — Jayme Moye, Outside Online, 30 July 2024
  • Yet for every cyclical swarm, a fraction of periodical cicadas inevitably miscalculate, crawling up from the depths four years off-cycle.
    — Eleanor Cummins, The New Republic, 11 May 2021
  • That such entities may have miscalculated the cost of hosting the World Cup is not a reason to compromise on event security.
    — Riley Rourke, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2026
  • This motley crew has potential, but Y2K miscalculates the impact of certain character deaths.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2024
  • Yet the company seems to continually miscalculate the extent to which this dynamic will jeopardize its business.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 30 June 2026

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