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It can be used when referring to a failure in communication where the intended message was not conveyed properly. Example: "The instructions were miscommunicated, leading to confusion among the team members." Alternatives include "misunderstood" or "misconveyed."
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miscommunicated
verb
Past of miscommunicate
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Confusion in the pits cost Denny Hamlin and his crew dearly on Sunday, as a miscommunicated tire request contributed to the driver missing a Sprint Cup victory that seemed all but assured for much of the afternoon at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
Midway through the second period, Carolina goalie Cam Ward and his defensemen miscommunicated over playing the puck in his crease.
Holmes was targeted 11 times, but he caught only three passes, and he and Sanchez miscommunicated on two errant pass plays.
One day in practice, DePriest miscommunicated a blitz to the secondary and tried to explain himself.
Buck and Parnell said they miscommunicated on their signs.
But instead of confidently inaugurating a shared cinematic playground, Zack Snyder's fanboy fever dream Superman v Batman: Dawn Of Justice – a deafening, illogical nonsense of random plot threads and miscommunicated motivations – threatened to neck-snap it at birth.
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That makes it easier to miscommunicate, says Sean O'Brien, senior vice president for strategy and communications at PGi, which provides technology platforms for virtual meetings.
Cruz and Manning have appeared to miscommunicate on several plays, including one on a critical third down against the Steelers.
Alan Sepinwall: On the sex question, maybe now that they've stopped miscommunicating what each of them wants in this relationship, they're also better at figuring out what the other wants in bed?
That men and women habitually "miscommunicate" owing to some notion of direct versus indirect speech-habits is also, as she shows, a useful get-out clause for men, as well as being highly implausible.
A standoff could very easily escalate, producing unintended and disastrous outcomes, if both sides miscommunicate and misperceive red lines.
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