mislay
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Why do airlines still mislay 25 million bags a year?
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2021
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
She would forget names once in a while and would mislay her car keys on occasion.
From New York Times ● Jun. 21, 2010
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 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 Lewis, Alfred Henry
I shall give the name of him who mislays my pen and uses up my ink.
From The Turtles of Tasman by London, Jack
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
Othello mislays his handkerchief, and there remains nothing for him but death.
From Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) by Ruskin, John
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
"I can't believe I mislaid an entire day!"
From Salon ● Feb. 21, 2022
The father-and-son team are part of a growing industry of ethical hackers using their skills to help people retrieve mislaid crypto-currency.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 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
Her soaring film career has by now supplied Brown with such an array of other fictional gifts and odd abilities that mislaying her telekinetic powers doesn’t seem quite so bad.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 28, 2021
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
Was the mislaying of a hypodermic needle such a heinous offence?
From Juggernaut by Campbell, Alice
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