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miscalculations

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  • noun Plural form of miscalculation.

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Examples

  • Aetna says the the miscalculations were the result of outdated data tables used by Aetna Student Health (also known as Chickering), and that average underpayment was about $25.

    Aetna Underpaid Students, Settles For $5 Million - The Consumerist 2009

  • Finally, many of the miscalculations are the result of a conservative analytic focus on narrow causes and effects, rather than mere incompetence.

    George Lakoff: George Bush Is Not Incompetent 2008

  • To administration officials, this perception of weakness is only the latest in a long series of "miscalculations" by the Iraqi ruler.

    Saddam's Endgame 2008

  • You can't predict what kind of miscalculations people can make when dealing with a superpower that has this kind of reputation and track record.

    Archive 2007-02-01 2007

  • You can't predict what kind of miscalculations people can make when dealing with a superpower that has this kind of reputation and track record.

    Hullabaloo 2007

  • Only years from now will these schemes "miscalculations" Bush has called them be exposed, and by then nobody would care.

    Monday, August 30, 2004 As'ad 2004

  • "miscalculations," citing the example of the Cold War-era US dialogue with the Soviet military.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • "miscalculations" and so forth, regularly made as if by policy decision by our elected officials and CEOs whom all graduated from the best of the very best Ivy league schools of the world.

    Teknosis 2009

  • One of the regime's biggest miscalculations was to strike the hardest in Deraa.

    Syria Revolt Fueled by Roof Fires and Tweets Nour Malas 2011

  • And now that teachers are blogging student stories, or tweeting teenage bon mots, the intimacy of the learning process, with all of its embedded mistakes and miscalculations, is open to judgment by complete strangers.

    Turnstyle: Talking Sh*t about Sh*t My Students Write Turnstyle 2011

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