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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
miscalibrate .
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"Every election we've seen problems with those machines, such as machines being miscalibrated, so that a person trying to cast a vote for one candidate actually casts a vote for another," he said.
Election Day 2010 Voting Problems Expected; Call Centers Are Open The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Cool, Obama miscalibrated words and now Kathy tries to make it seems that the press misquoted her.
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"Every election we've seen problems with those machines, such as machines being miscalibrated, so that a person trying to cast a vote for one candidate actually casts a vote for another," he said.
Election Day 2010 Voting Problems Expected; Call Centers Are Open The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Both Professor Fisher and Professor Hughes agree that copyright plays a critical role in maintaining the economic incentive for creative expression that we expect for our society and culture today, and both agree that it can be damaging and distorting if miscalibrated such that it places excessive limits on the ability of artists to create derivative works or distributers to provide access to information.
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And the d-bagometer is miscalibrated here, I think.
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Later Wednesday, Mr. Einhorn held a conference call in which he lambasted the FSA for its ruling, comparing the regulator to a traffic cop with a "miscalibrated" radar gun.
U.K. Fines Einhorn for Insider Trades Susan Pulliam 2012
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"Every election we've seen problems with those machines, such as machines being miscalibrated, so that a person trying to cast a vote for one candidate actually casts a vote for another," he said.
Election Day 2010 Voting Problems Expected; Call Centers Are Open The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Copyright law was radically miscalibrated even before computer technology reduced the cost of reproduction and preservation of works dramatically.
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When I first started dating my feminist fellow, the absence of niceties related to me being a lady felt refreshing, but I soon realized how much I actually relied on them as a sort of barometer of the relationship, however miscalibrated.
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"Every election we've seen problems with those machines, such as machines being miscalibrated, so that a person trying to cast a vote for one candidate actually casts a vote for another," he said.
Election Day 2010 Voting Problems Expected; Call Centers Are Open The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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