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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 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

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

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

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

Losing and mislaying objects is of especial interest to us because of the ambiguity and the multiplicity of tendencies in whose services the errors may act.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud