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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
But in a blink of inattention, I would mislay the baby.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
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
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
"Well, Burt's good-hearted, but sometimes he mislays his judgment," said Webb, laughing.
From Nature's Serial Story by Edward Payson Roe
Enviable stoicism that mislays the keepsake of some poor widow, or lames the old curate's cob, the fond companion of many rambles.
From The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Charles James Lever
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
Most people, though not all, would notice if they mislaid a $100 bill.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
In the rush, he mislaid his keys, and lost 30 minutes searching in the smoky dark with torches until he found them blown against a fence.
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2025
What follows is a suspenseful tale of misplaced trust, mislaid memories and unreliable narration.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 23, 2023
"I can't believe I mislaid an entire day!"
From Salon ● Feb. 21, 2022
We may raise the possibility that Mr. X mislaid his picnic basket and chose to report it stolen in the hopes of making a claim on his insurance, and so on.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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
The impression given by reports in The Sun newspaper is unfair an mislaying, and my words have often been taken out of context.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 19, 2013
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
The theft—or mislaying, as the Department hopes it will prove to be—took place several days ago.
From The Dream Doctor by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve
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