mislaid
Example Sentences
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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
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
Yukiko Hosomi, 46, mislaid her wallet while shopping in Bristol and assumed she would never see it again.
From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2022
Unfortunately she had mislaid or lost Mademoiselle Reisz’s card, and looking up her address in the city directory, she found that the woman lived on Bienville Street, some distance away.
From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
