misplaced
Example Sentences
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I’ve been an eyewitness to lost specimens turning up in a museum when a colleague spotted a dinosaur skull and pterosaur skeleton sitting on the wrong shelf like misplaced library books.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
“Without this information, we would have misplaced donations, and wasted time that kids with cancer don’t have,” wrote Emily McFadden, co-founder of the nonprofit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
So let me offer a different lineup, since the country seems to have misplaced it.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
For that reason, lamenting the benefits he never received after his death is, in my view, misplaced.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
And now we have misplaced one of them.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
