as in to misname
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Recent Examples of miscall
Nearly every major polling outfit miscalled the 2016 Presidential race.
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Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for miscall
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In some cases, police and lawyers inflict further harm by misgendering and misnaming victims.—
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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.—
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Researchers say outdated diagnostics often misidentify the infection, which delays treatment.—
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Wear fluorescent orange to make sure other hunters do not misidentify you.—
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Without adjusting, companies will misapply probabilistic tools to deterministic problems and misinterpret their outcomes.—
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But sometimes people misapply the word tradition to things that are simply obsolete.—
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“Miscall.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/miscall. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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