misplaced
Example Sentences
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Too many misplaced passes but never hides or shirks responsibility.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 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
For that reason, lamenting the benefits he never received after his death is, in my view, misplaced.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
So let me offer a different lineup, since the country seems to have misplaced it.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
But he had no fixed address, which made him, if not long-lost, at least easily misplaced.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
