mislaid

Example Sentences

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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

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

That confidence could now be mislaid with the quickly evolving situation causing a dashboard of indicators to flash some potential warning signs.

From Reuters • Aug. 23, 2021

It either went underground, becoming esoteric or occult, or it was mislaid and would eventually turn up after centuries of lying neglected in some monastery library.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton