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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

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

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

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

From The Turtles of Tasman by Jack London

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

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

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2025

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

What looked like new knowledge was, consequently, simply old knowledge which had been mislaid, and history was assumed to go round in circles.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

He has matured from the young man who once kicked a ballboy in frustration, or lost his place having returned late from Belgium after mislaying his passport.

From The Guardian ● May 25, 2019

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 another case a mistake is combined with mislaying an object.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud