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

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

From Salon • Feb. 21, 2022

Yukiko Hosomi, 46, mislaid her wallet while shopping in Bristol and assumed she would never see it again.

From BBC • Jan. 31, 2022

That confidence could now be mislaid with the quickly evolving situation causing a dashboard of indicators to flash some potential warning signs.

From Reuters • Aug. 23, 2021

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