mislay
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Why do airlines still mislay 25 million bags a year?
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2021
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
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
Enviable stoicism that mislays the keepsake of some poor widow, or lames the old curate's cob, the fond companion of many rambles.
From The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Charles James Lever
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
"Well, Burt's good-hearted, but sometimes he mislays his judgment," said Webb, laughing.
From Nature's Serial Story by Edward Payson Roe
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
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
The father-and-son team are part of a growing industry of ethical hackers using their skills to help people retrieve mislaid crypto-currency.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2022
Curiously enough, they went on believing this even after the mislaid key was found under a sack of meal.
From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell
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
This was more than a few individuals mislaying their moral compass or being encouraged to think they could get away with something because of light-touch regulation.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 7, 2012
In another case a mistake is combined with mislaying an object.
From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
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