misfile
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"If you misfile it," Roth says, the weight of experience behind him, "it's gone."
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2017
According to the department, Thomas was denied a promotion because part of his personnel records, including a glowing job evaluation from the embassy in Mexico, had been accidentally misfiled.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 22, 2018
Documents were misfiled, meetings were missed, the military and the statistical ministries disagreed about who would benefit.
From Nature ● Apr. 26, 2016
It was in the public library after all -- it had simply been misfiled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2015
"We're thrilled to have found these treasures right here at home. They were found safe and sound, simply misfiled," said Library president Amy Ryan.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2015
That book was misfiled, on the wrong shelf.
From The Tarn of Eternity by Tymon, Frank
The misfiling of his personnel records, his family suspected, may have been intentional.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 20, 2019
The FBI at times stumbled in its foray into the literary world, originally thinking the writer’s first name was José and misfiling its classified intelligence under the name José García Márquez.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 3, 2015
