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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

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

And that boy of mine is such a stupid fellow; he loses or mislays the letters somehow—I can’t understand how.

From Post Haste by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

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

Othello mislays his handkerchief, and there remains nothing for him but death.

From Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) by John Ruskin

Most people, though not all, would notice if they mislaid a $100 bill.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026

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

One letter missed its issue because the Coop office mislaid it and never sent it to the editor.

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2022

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

From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2022

“Yes, yes. You are mistaken. I put a new skein beside you only an hour ago. You have mislaid the thread,” he insisted.

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan

Losing AirPods would be much more frustrating than mislaying a $15 pair of headphones from the airport.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 22, 2016

The impression given by reports in The Sun newspaper is unfair an mislaying, and my words have often been taken out of context.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 19, 2013

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

In a third class this characteristic of transience is lacking, as for example in mislaying things so that they cannot be found again, or in the analogous case of losing things.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud