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

At her home in Nottingham, his daughter June says she remembers seeing one of him with her and her sisters, but at some point over the years it was mislaid.

From BBC • Jun. 21, 2023

What follows is a suspenseful tale of misplaced trust, mislaid memories and unreliable narration.

From Washington Post • Feb. 23, 2023

"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