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misplaced

adjective as in displaced

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Agency officials told Ka that they had misplaced her paperwork.

That figure is about eight times larger than the 9,155 ballots reported as misplaced in North Carolina postal districts.

Because that theoretical maximum is well under both the current two-party margin and the number of expected ballots outstanding, it’s unlikely that misplaced mail ballots will meaningfully alter the trajectory of the election in the state.

Pittsburgh-area postal union officials said they were certain the agency had not misplaced any ballots.

Spelling and grammar checking software, such as the one built into Microsoft Word or the grammar checker Grammarly, can suggest when a word is incorrectly used or a comma misplaced.

From Fortune

Other major news outlets made the same decision, hiding behind a misplaced sense of multicultural sensitivity.

This is not to say that the focus on children in the report is entirely misplaced.

Certainly the speech suggests that American hopes of persuading Turkey to come fully on board are misplaced.

In fact, the only shade of reaction besides enthusiasm Carter and Knight got to the project was some misplaced confusion.

There is no questioning their fellowship and effort to dispel misplaced preconceptions.

They are still comparatively supple, and any misplaced pinnæ may be re-arranged without any difficulty.

"I have heard all these arguments before," said Gilbert, sorry for his misplaced confidence, when it was too late.

I appreciate your sense of the dramatic, and even your motives, but I assure you they are both misplaced.

Take care, Captain, misplaced courage is frequently braggadocio; your position is desperate.

But a little consideration must show that this confidence may ere long be found to be misplaced.

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On this page you'll find 11 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to misplaced, such as: gone, lost, and mislaid.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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