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
But they are convinced – with good reason, given what they have discovered – that if Thomas’s personnel records were misfiled it was intentional, and that it was never the real reason for his firing.
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
Sigman said he believed The Oregon Trail was misfiled and placed in the wrong canister.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2013
We misfiled someone else's charts in your files and, well, you understand, I'm sure.
From Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel by Winn Schwartau
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
