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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

The physical world is an annoyance, an afterthought, a place where they mislay their pills and can’t seem to remember why it was that they entered a room or left it.

From New York Times ● Jun. 10, 2018

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

But in a blink of inattention, I would mislay the baby.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

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

The French war-nurse sometimes mislays an instrument or forgets to sterilize a dressing; but she almost always finds the consoling word to say and the right tone to take with her wounded soldiers.

From Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort by Edith Wharton

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

Othello mislays his handkerchief, and there remains nothing for him but death.

From Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) by John Ruskin

Near to Beggary.—Even the richest intellect sometimes mislays the key to the room in which his hoarded treasures repose.

From Human, All-Too-Human, Part II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Wills can be destroyed or mislaid, accidentally on purpose; beneficiary designations are the purview of the financial institution in question.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2025

At her home in Nottingham, his daughter June says she remembers seeing one of him with her and her sisters, but at some point over the years it was mislaid.

From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2023

A nation’s stuff, squeezed and zippered and then entrusted to the delicate ballet of air travel, has been mislaid and orphaned this week.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 28, 2022

"I can't believe I mislaid an entire day!"

From Salon ● Feb. 21, 2022

Still, he could not speak out, and he only looked east and west and feigned to have mislaid his pipe in his garments, and he fumbled in his girdle.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

Her soaring film career has by now supplied Brown with such an array of other fictional gifts and odd abilities that mislaying her telekinetic powers doesn’t seem quite so bad.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 28, 2021

Losing AirPods would be much more frustrating than mislaying a $15 pair of headphones from the airport.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 22, 2016

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

In a third class this characteristic of transience is lacking, as for example in mislaying things so that they cannot be found again, or in the analogous case of losing things.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud