Example Sentences

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In Northampton, “the county’s new voting machines appear to have miscounted the results” in a three-way local judicial race, the Allentown Morning Call reported in its Wednesday print edition.

From Salon • Nov. 7, 2019

They have jokes about sponge counts: never any left in, but nurses have miscounted upon occasion.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Can it be," he asked absently, "that I have miscounted?"

From The Last Straw by Titus, Harold

"Reckon again, child," says her father, very deliberately; "perhaps you have miscounted."

From The Adventures of Roderick Random by Smollett, T. (Tobias)