How To Use Miscalculation In A Sentence
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I know now that his attempted suicide was merely miscalculation.
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Clearly once risk is traded in this way there is significant scope for miscalculation and even outright fraud.
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Plot holes and hit-or-miss acting aside, the moviemakersâ most grievous miscalculation is that itâs just too long.
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I think Russell sorry, Mr. Davies, I don't know him personally occasionally makes the odd miscalculation, usually with his humour - in this case the overuse of the word chav, which is everywhere right now over here, but which I doubt will be so current millenia in the future.
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After Christina Aguilera, who has confessedly been singing this since she was seven and if you don't believe me, check YouTube, memorably flubbed the lyrics at this year's Super Bowl, it seems as good an occasion as any to point out what an utter miscalculation this song is.
Christina Aguilera didn't botch the national anthem. Francis Scott Key did.
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They could be in for nasty surprises because of direct exposure or the miscalculation of the quantities that they have reinsured, he said.
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Was it an admission of error, a miscalculation, or a praiseworthy acceptance of the people's demands for a say on the new constitution, to which he simply had to bow?
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I made a slight miscalculation.
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In high circles in South Alabama showing up early or at the precise time invited is a faux pas of immense miscalculation and considered a sign of uncouth upbringing.
Not being on time a high art in Mexico
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It later transpired the statistic had been plucked from another publication: it was a miscalculation.
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His preference for very measured speeds in slow movements leads him to at least one serious miscalculation.
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The conspirators' plot failed because they made two fatal miscalculations.
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MR. LEHRER: Is it fair to say, then, that the miscalculation resulted in chaotic situation that existed immediately after for awhile and got – immediately after the invasion and all that sort of stuff?
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This fatal miscalculation lost them the final victory.
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The production's biggest miscalculation is having Goese hoard eight similarly-themed, songs when three would amply supply rounded characterization.
G. Roger Denson: Julia Stiles and Mimi Goese Take On Godly Sexual Politics at BAM
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That is the road to dangerous miscalculation.
Times, Sunday Times
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I believe it was a serious miscalculation, which is why somebody's calling up the Washington Post and instructing them to airbrush history.
Hullabaloo
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I thought if I told Mark everything, it would be OK. That was a bad miscalculation.
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In businesses with high turnover and low profit margins, a miscalculation of selling prices can have a big effect on a firm's annual profits.
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But Strauss-Kahn's earlier use of the word "miscalculation" is telling.
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The Portuguese government has said the miscalculation was the result of a change in EU accounting rules.
Portugal Hints at Deficit Revision
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The project went over budget because of a miscalculation at the planning stage.
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Disastrous miscalculations and conflict can enkindle violent wildfires.
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If that was what Blair thought, then this was, of course, a disastrous miscalculation.
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In the past year, numerous media accounts have revealed screw-ups, miscalculations and oversights.
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That is the road to dangerous miscalculation.
Times, Sunday Times
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The coup failed because of miscalculations by the plotters.
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The chairman of the Joint Chiefs did provide one bit of advice at the end of his remarks on the Nuclear Posture Review - advice that the disarmer in chief would have been well advised to heed, but didn't: "Without such improvements, an aging nuclear force supported by a neglected infrastructure only invites enemy misbehavior and miscalculation.
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However, realists tend not to grant that miscalculation is a major part of foreign policy, because that would raise questions about the role of leaders and other individuals.
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Yet U.S. policy in Afghanistan, borne out of ignorance and/or willful neglect, appears bent on doing both as America's miscalculations continue to breathe life into a rag-tag acephalic insurgency - misbegotten strategies that shall likely yield a foreign military presence in Central Asia until the end times.
Michael Hughes: Saving Afghanistan Requires Smashing Dangerous Delusions
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If he was guilty of mismanagement, miscalculation or mere mistakes then the proper place to hold him to account would be the ballot box.
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Right around the time a 9.0 tsunami struck Japan and left in its wake the worst nuclear reactor disaster since Chernobyl, the Transportation Security Administration made public the results of its internal review that show what they call "record-keeping errors" and miscalculations by TSA contractors.
Jayne Lyn Stahl: TSA, Radiation, and "Record-Keeping" Errors
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In the past year, numerous media accounts have revealed screw-ups, miscalculations and oversights.
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The company has punctured this fragile mood of optimism with a miscalculation of astonishing proportions.
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As Reagan understood them: "We seek to reduce nuclear arsenals and to reduce the chances for dangerous misunderstanding and miscalculations, so we have put forward proposals for what we call confidence-building measures.
Joe Cirincione: Reagan the Abolitionist
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For his part, Eisenhower feared a surprise attack and war by miscalculation.
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From the start, negotiations over water have been rife with miscalculations, poor planning and plain old huckstering.
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He felt that, on balance, the accident was due to a mixture of speed, inadvertence and miscalculation on the part of the plaintiff and he dismissed the claim, awarding costs to the defendants.
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The project went over budget because of a miscalculation at the planning stage.
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Only in this manner can we hope to reduce the risks of adventurism and miscalculation in a world that retains many thousands of nuclear weapons.
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The Dublin team was clearly psyched up in preparation for the early exchanges and a Paul Gibbons miscalculation presented them with a scoring opportunity that was smothered by Gavin Dowling.
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After a number of miscalculations and mismeasurements, I decided that I needed to study the problem for real.
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Working conditions at the agency are very tense as unemployed people invariably wait for several hours in long queues leading to mistakes and miscalculations being made by staff.
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Maybe she missed the channel into Angle Inlet by only a fraction of a mile, a miscalculation of gradient or degree.
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Whatever lies behind the timing of this initiative, the need to deploy an entire battalion smacks of military miscalculation.
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It was, in any case, a terrifying miscalculation which led to a fundamental dishonesty.
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The conspirators' plot failed because they made two fatal miscalculations.
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In the past year, numerous media accounts have revealed screw-ups, miscalculations and oversights.
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The house was, he thought, a monument to miscalculation.
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It called the threat a "bad miscalculation", and appeared to goad Anonymous to action, with the phrase "bring it!
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That is the road to dangerous miscalculation.
Times, Sunday Times
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It could be argued that Blast was a miscalculation all round, even for Wyndham Lewis.
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Southwark council admitted making serious miscalculations in this year's budget.
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Finally, Webb's dark prophecies about the law-he calls it a "miscalculation" - are unconvincing:
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Taxi is an embarrassing formula picture that is full of miscalculations and cynically milks previous material.
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Given huge portions of Asia Minor by the Treaty of Sevres, the Greeks made a terrible miscalculation, thinking they could recapture more territory and even Constantinople.
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Maybe she missed the channel into Angle Inlet by only a fraction of a mile, a miscalculation of gradient or degree.
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In a disastrous miscalculation, the producers carefully put back all the lame, dated gags and Manhattan provincialisms that dotted the original production.
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When you have a whole nation taking up with a suicide cult, MG-42s, self-propelled guns, and cyanide (just in case you made a miscalculation) are going to be produced in amazing quantities at rapid speeds!
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American policy was thus based on a disastrous miscalculation, which came home to roost at Pearl Harbor.
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Right now, it's a struggle to disrupt the numbing media chatter about miscalculations and mistakes - to insist on acknowledgment of moral culpability.
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His combination of brains and bravery—even in the face of his grave miscalculation regarding Dean—when viewed against the smug, shallow self-satisfaction of the media bigfeet who mock him, redounds enormously to Gore's benefit.
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To the world at large It'seemed a glaring example of miscalculation, confusion, timidity, and muddle.
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Furious council leaders say the miscalculation is not their fault.
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‘We don't want this thing to end up in some kind of miscalculation that embroils us in a conflict,’ he said.
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Now our guys are dying everyday because of a blithering miscalculation on your part.
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Nobody's always right - we all need to acknowledge mistakes, errors and miscalculations.
