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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
miscall .
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Examples
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Not so with TBS lead MLB play-by-play announcer Chip Caray, whose odd calls — and miscalls — drew criticism in past years and are now drawing rapid-fire flak online and on sports talk radio.
Should TBS dump Caray, look elsewhere on baseball playoffs? 2009
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Those miscalls prompted Gore to call Bush and concede the election, then retract the concession when he realized the race was still too close to call.
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It was exacerbated to an immense degree by the miscalls of the networks in the early morning after Election Day, when they all projected Bush the Florida winner, and thus the next president of the United States, only to retract their calls two hours later.
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In the past, Jack had shown a fair amount of pomposity, episodes of denial as I've pointed out, self-destructive miscalls in his hiring and favoritism to corporate types and others who eventually caused him ill and occasional loss of credibility.
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Media - Fla. miscalls right up there with DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN.
Perspectives 2008
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Follows the tale of Núr al-Dín Alí, and what Galland miscalls
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I drudge for him, and he bullies me, miscalls me before the men, thrashes me -- oh, mother!
In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Herbert Strang
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I have observed, that which the world miscalls discretion, to eat upp zeale, as that which they call policy, doth wisdome.
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Hesitates, repeats, miscalls words, and never gets the thought.
The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale Lewis Madison Terman 1916
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Cap'n Ed'ard Teach miscalls hisself, must needs abandon the sloop.
Blackbeard: Buccaneer Ralph Delahaye Paine 1898
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