miscall

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Recent Examples of miscall Nearly every major polling outfit miscalled the 2016 Presidential race. Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for miscall
Verb
  • In the course of the initiative, Nigel Jeffries, MOLA’s ceramics specialist, has come to believe that witch bottles may have not only been miscategorized but misnamed: these bottles were likely medical objects, rather than magical ones.
    Geoff Manaugh, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2019
  • In some cases, police and lawyers inflict further harm by misgendering and misnaming victims.
    Kristin Lam, USA TODAY, 20 Nov. 2019
Verb
  • This is because a VPN may route your connection through a server in a different location, causing the app to misidentify your current position.
    Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report, Fox News, 25 Dec. 2024
  • Unintended consequences, such as AI misidentifying targets or being weaponized in unforeseen ways, could have catastrophic outcomes.
    Max (Chong) Li, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • Our biased admiration for good fathers is misapplied to a species, such as the bald eagle, in which biparental care is the rule.
    Time, Time, 17 June 2023
  • First, if a bull market means to you that stocks are trending unequivocally upward, then, no, the bull market label is being misapplied right now.
    Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 16 June 2023

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“Miscall.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/miscall. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.

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