mislay
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Why do airlines still mislay 25 million bags a year?
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2021
The physical world is an annoyance, an afterthought, a place where they mislay their pills and can’t seem to remember why it was that they entered a room or left it.
From New York Times ● Jun. 10, 2018
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
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
Othello mislays his handkerchief, and there remains nothing for him but death.
From Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) by John Ruskin
And that boy of mine is such a stupid fellow; he loses or mislays the letters somehow—I can’t understand how.
From Post Haste by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
"Well, Burt's good-hearted, but sometimes he mislays his judgment," said Webb, laughing.
From Nature's Serial Story by Edward Payson Roe
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
After they mislaid evidence a number of times, she says, she carried her home computer and a pile of paperwork into the police station.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2025
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
"I can't believe I mislaid an entire day!"
From Salon ● Feb. 21, 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
Her soaring film career has by now supplied Brown with such an array of other fictional gifts and odd abilities that mislaying her telekinetic powers doesn’t seem quite so bad.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 28, 2021
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
"You are always mislaying your spectacles and finding them again," grumbled Adler, leaning his head on his hand.
From More Tales by Polish Authors by Various
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