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If the clocks on those satellites stray by a millionth of a second, you'll mislay yourself by 200km or 300km.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2019

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

But in a blink of inattention, I would mislay the baby.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

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

I shall give the name of him who mislays my pen and uses up my ink.

From The Turtles of Tasman by Jack London

Near to Beggary.—Even the richest intellect sometimes mislays the key to the room in which his hoarded treasures repose.

From Human, All-Too-Human, Part II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I shore don't know how I mislays my se'f-respect to sech a pitch as to go settin' into these yere paltry plays.'

From Wolfville Days by Alfred Henry Lewis

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 Sir Owen Seaman

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

Concerns the vaccine programme could inadvertently increase shingles risk for older people are mislaid, says experts.

From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2023

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

From Washington Post ● Feb. 23, 2023

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

He has matured from the young man who once kicked a ballboy in frustration, or lost his place having returned late from Belgium after mislaying his passport.

From The Guardian ● May 25, 2019

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

"By no means—she might think it was a reflection upon her for carelessly mislaying the first."

From Driven from Home, or Carl Crawford's Experience by Horatio Alger