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
I shall give the name of him who mislays my pen and uses up my ink.
From The Turtles of Tasman by Jack London
Othello mislays his handkerchief, and there remains nothing for him but death.
From Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) by John Ruskin
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
Having duly impressed "Good King Wenceslas" upon us, it is now rendering an emotional waltz, of which, though now and then it may drop a note or two, it mislays none of the pathos.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 30, 1914 by Sir Owen Seaman
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
Concerns the vaccine programme could inadvertently increase shingles risk for older people are mislaid, says experts.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2023
What follows is a suspenseful tale of misplaced trust, mislaid memories and unreliable narration.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 23, 2023
One letter missed its issue because the Coop office mislaid it and never sent it to the editor.
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2022
"I have mislaid them as well, I fear."
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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
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
To this day, he admits that something as simple as mislaying a pen in his "monstrous London uber-pad" can trigger a whole new wave of furious self-hatred.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 18, 2010
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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