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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
miscalculate .
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Examples
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Who among us never misspells a word, miscalculates a tip, or forgets the boiling point of water?
Linda Flanagan: Why Bad Teachers Are Good for Kids Linda Flanagan 2011
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Who among us never misspells a word, miscalculates a tip, or forgets the boiling point of water?
Linda Flanagan: Why Bad Teachers Are Good for Kids Linda Flanagan 2011
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Who among us never misspells a word, miscalculates a tip, or forgets the boiling point of water?
Linda Flanagan: Why Bad Teachers Are Good for Kids Linda Flanagan 2011
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Who among us never misspells a word, miscalculates a tip, or forgets the boiling point of water?
Linda Flanagan: Why Bad Teachers Are Good for Kids Linda Flanagan 2011
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However, even with Reed at her side (and her bed), she miscalculates as she learns the deadly way that she is the goal of a BLOOD SPORT contest between predators.
Blood Sport-Judith E. French « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews 2008
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He miscalculates, however, and annihilates everything in the Holy Land, Israeli and Palestinian alike, except for the three things that even nuclear holocaust cannot eradicate -- cockroaches, Qassams, and settlement outposts.
Bradley Burston: Waltz with Bashir, Gaza, and the Post-Moral World 2009
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Through the praxis of the prisoner's dilemma, players who fail to account for the cost/benefit of all agents affected by the transaction will potentially defect; i.e., opt out of treatment that would otherwise be beneficial to both the recipient and society because he miscalculates how much treatment is worth to all parties involved.
Insurance as a Prisoners' Dilemma, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Put it all together, and you get: A time traveler miscalculates his landing place, falls past some phone poles on his way to being impaled on the Eiffel tower on a windy day!
A Day in the Life 2009
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She's a triangulator and it's pretty ugly when she miscalculates.
Obama On Hillary's OPEC Talk: "That's Not Being Straight With The American People" 2009
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If Obama miscalculates, he could truly crash the stock market and drive the economy into depression.
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