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If the clocks on those satellites stray by a millionth of a second, you'll mislay yourself by 200km or 300km.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2019

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

They all knew what the almanac looked like; their miserably uncomfortable master seemed to mislay it with every full moon.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

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

I shall give the name of him who mislays my pen and uses up my ink.

From The Turtles of Tasman by Jack London

Having duly impressed "Good King Wenceslas" upon us, it is now rendering an emotional waltz, of which, though now and then it may drop a note or two, it mislays none of the pathos.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 30, 1914 by Sir Owen Seaman

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

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

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

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026

People can also use its tracing service to track down mislaid bonds, he said.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2025

What follows is a suspenseful tale of misplaced trust, mislaid memories and unreliable narration.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 23, 2023

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

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2022

“Your knife? But you’ve already mislaid your knife once recently.”

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke

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

To this day, he admits that something as simple as mislaying a pen in his "monstrous London uber-pad" can trigger a whole new wave of furious self-hatred.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 18, 2010

And yet the examples are not at all rare in which the attendant circumstances of the mislaying point to a tendency temporarily or permanently to get rid of the object.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud