misfile

Example Sentences

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The sheriff said he recently found a missing person’s report from 2000 that had been misfiled.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 12, 2021

But they are convinced – with good reason, given what they have discovered – that if Thomas’s personnel records were misfiled it was intentional, and that it was never the real reason for his firing.

From The Guardian • Apr. 22, 2018

Documents were misfiled, meetings were missed, the military and the statistical ministries disagreed about who would benefit.

From Nature • Apr. 26, 2016

It was in the public library after all -- it had simply been misfiled.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 23, 2015

We misfiled someone else's charts in your files and, well, you understand, I'm sure.

From Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel by Schwartau, Winn