Dennis Ross

You don't have any communication between the Israelis and the Iranians. You have all sorts of local triggers for conflict. Having countries act on a hair trigger - where they can't afford to be second to strike - the potential for a miscalculation or a nuclear war through inadvertence is simply too high.

American Diplomat

Robert C. O'Brien

For decades, conventional wisdom in the United States held that it was only a matter of time before China would become more liberal, first economically and then politically. We could not have been more wrong - a miscalculation that stands as the greatest failure of U.S. foreign policy since the 1930s.

American Public Servant

Stephen Kinzer

American strategic doctrine suggests that Mexico is of second-level importance to the United States. It ranks below Japan and Indonesia, Brazil and India, Egypt and Israel, and European powers including Britain, France, and Germany. This is a grave geopolitical miscalculation.

American Author

Valerie Jarrett

One miscalculation I made is I did not fully appreciate that the Republicans in Congress were going to just say no to everything. Even when there are ideas that have traditionally been bipartisan.

American Lawyer

Frances McDormand

My feminist training was that this was your goal, to be a self-sufficient woman, but that is a miscalculation. It's just not the way we work. We work in dialogue with the community.

American Actress

Carlos Beruff

I made the miscalculation of taking Mr. Rubio at his word that he wouldn't seek re-election if he lost the presidential primary.

American Businessman

Mohamed ElBaradei

Even with the best intentions, you can have a nuclear war, a nuclear holocaust, through miscalculation, through accidents.

Egyptian Scientist

Emphasizes an error with consequences impacting plans, expectations, or outcomes.

Result Implications

Shows the mistake was not deliberate, often realizing it after the fact.

Unintentional Error

May be used metaphorically to refer to misunderstandings in human interactions.

Figurative Usage

 when we experience something new, unusual, or dynamic, like hopping on one foot while taking instructions from a voice on the computer, or, say, jumping out of an airplane, we often miscalculate how much time has passed. Meaning, if you bungee jump for the first time,

How do we experience...

 as a child, and have been through many times since, including as a grown-up, is a product of what psychologists call a bias. Now a bias is a way in which we systematically get things wrong, ways in which we miscalculate, misjudge,

The 4 stories we tell...

 the slightest miscalculation could be fatal gametes dive no deeper than 10 meters so once again they rely on the dolphins to keep their prey near the surface

A Collection Of Summer...

 each nail must be precisely placed a miscalculation could cause permanent paralysis in the hands

Miscalculate