How To Use Miscalculation In A Sentence
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It could be argued that Blast was a miscalculation all round, even for Wyndham Lewis.
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That is the road to dangerous miscalculation.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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The house was, he thought, a monument to miscalculation.
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In the past year, numerous media accounts have revealed screw-ups, miscalculations and oversights.
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The conspirators' plot failed because they made two fatal miscalculations.
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It was, in any case, a terrifying miscalculation which led to a fundamental dishonesty.
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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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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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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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After a number of miscalculations and mismeasurements, I decided that I needed to study the problem for real.
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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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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 project went over budget because of a miscalculation at the planning stage.
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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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From the start, negotiations over water have been rife with miscalculations, poor planning and plain old huckstering.
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For his part, Eisenhower feared a surprise attack and war by miscalculation.
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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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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!
Matthew Yglesias » The United States Has Always Been Rich
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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.
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The coup failed because of miscalculations by the plotters.
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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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That is the road to dangerous miscalculation.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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This fatal miscalculation lost them the final victory.
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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?
We Used To Leave The Blue Lights On And There Was A Beat | ATTACKERMAN
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The conspirators' plot failed because they made two fatal miscalculations.
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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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I know now that his attempted suicide was merely miscalculation.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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I made a slight miscalculation.
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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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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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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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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.
New Doctor Who
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Plot holes and hit-or-miss acting aside, the moviemakersâ most grievous miscalculation is that itâs just too long.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
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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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It later transpired the statistic had been plucked from another publication: it was a miscalculation.
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The company has punctured this fragile mood of optimism with a miscalculation of astonishing proportions.
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In the past year, numerous media accounts have revealed screw-ups, miscalculations and oversights.
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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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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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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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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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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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I thought if I told Mark everything, it would be OK. That was a bad miscalculation.
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That is the road to dangerous miscalculation.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the past year, numerous media accounts have revealed screw-ups, miscalculations and oversights.
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If that was what Blair thought, then this was, of course, a disastrous miscalculation.
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Disastrous miscalculations and conflict can enkindle violent wildfires.
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The project went over budget because of a miscalculation at the planning stage.
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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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But Strauss-Kahn's earlier use of the word "miscalculation" is telling.
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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.
