mislay

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 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

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

From The Turtles of Tasman by Jack London

"Well, Burt's good-hearted, but sometimes he mislays his judgment," said Webb, laughing.

From Nature's Serial Story by Edward Payson Roe

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 Edith Wharton

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

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

Still, he could not speak out, and he only looked east and west and feigned to have mislaid his pipe in his garments, and he fumbled in his girdle.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

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

Gradually, as the news of her removal got round to her less intimate friends, the flow of them grew less, and at last--to our great relief, for we were always mislaying her address--it ceased altogether.

From If I May by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne