misplaced
Example Sentences
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More than 2,500 ballots had been misplaced in the original count, but were found while doing the recount.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
Looking back to his best in recent weeks even if he was relieved to see one misplaced pass unpunished.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
He also appears to have misplaced every hair below his collarbone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
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
She had misplaced her awareness of her true body reposed in her true bed, and of the moth on Lazlo’s brow.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
