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Why do airlines still mislay 25 million bags a year?

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2021

The physical world is an annoyance, an afterthought, a place where they mislay their pills and can’t seem to remember why it was that they entered a room or left it.

From New York Times ● Jun. 10, 2018

If you’re easily offended or confused, mislay this book and go back to “All the Light We Cannot See.”

From Washington Post ● May 12, 2015

The task isn't simply to avoid panic at the crucial juncture but to be sure not to mislay one's excrement in between times, while the opposing captain jiggles his field and the bowler runs up.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 1, 2013

They all knew what the almanac looked like; their miserably uncomfortable master seemed to mislay it with every full moon.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

All the same, who would have thought it could be so much fun to be trapped inside the head of the type of person who so radically mislays herself?

From Time Magazine Archive

And that boy of mine is such a stupid fellow; he loses or mislays the letters somehow—I can’t understand how.

From Post Haste by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

Enviable stoicism that mislays the keepsake of some poor widow, or lames the old curate's cob, the fond companion of many rambles.

From The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Lever, Charles James

The French war-nurse sometimes mislays an instrument or forgets to sterilize a dressing; but she almost always finds the consoling word to say and the right tone to take with her wounded soldiers.

From Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort by Wharton, Edith

Having duly impressed "Good King Wenceslas" upon us, it is now rendering an emotional waltz, of which, though now and then it may drop a note or two, it mislays none of the pathos.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 30, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir

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

"In theory, it shouldn't be the end of the world if you don't have the original certificate, perhaps because they've been mislaid or damaged," she said.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2025

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

One letter missed its issue because the Coop office mislaid it and never sent it to the editor.

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2022

“Your knife? But you’ve already mislaid your knife once recently.”

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke

Losing AirPods would be much more frustrating than mislaying a $15 pair of headphones from the airport.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 22, 2016

In addition to unsettled weather, ominous portents include the groom’s mislaying of the ring, and his first squabble with Dolly, in which he refuses to take her beloved pet turtle on the overseas voyage.

From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2012

This was more than a few individuals mislaying their moral compass or being encouraged to think they could get away with something because of light-touch regulation.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 7, 2012

To this day, he admits that something as simple as mislaying a pen in his "monstrous London uber-pad" can trigger a whole new wave of furious self-hatred.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 18, 2010

And yet the examples are not at all rare in which the attendant circumstances of the mislaying point to a tendency temporarily or permanently to get rid of the object.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund