mislaid

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Wills can be destroyed or mislaid, accidentally on purpose; beneficiary designations are the purview of the financial institution in question.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 20, 2025

Concerns the vaccine programme could inadvertently increase shingles risk for older people are mislaid, says experts.

From BBC • Nov. 14, 2023

A nation’s stuff, squeezed and zippered and then entrusted to the delicate ballet of air travel, has been mislaid and orphaned this week.

From Washington Post • Dec. 28, 2022

"I can't believe I mislaid an entire day!"

From Salon • Feb. 21, 2022

What looked like new knowledge was, consequently, simply old knowledge which had been mislaid, and history was assumed to go round in circles.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton