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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

They all knew what the almanac looked like; their miserably uncomfortable master seemed to mislay it with every full moon.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

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

The French war-nurse sometimes mislays an instrument or forgets to sterilize a dressing; but she almost always finds the consoling word to say and the right tone to take with her wounded soldiers.

From Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort by Edith Wharton

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

I shall give the name of him who mislays my pen and uses up my ink.

From The Turtles of Tasman by Jack London

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

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

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

One letter missed its issue because the Coop office mislaid it and never sent it to the editor.

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2022

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

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

In a third class this characteristic of transience is lacking, as for example in mislaying things so that they cannot be found again, or in the analogous case of losing things.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud