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Too, the suspicion that it could not be done again, that the ability to pull it off had been mislaid.—Joy Williams, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025 Assistant coach Ryan Jensen, the Fort Morgan native and a Super Bowl champ with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, mislaid his hat before the game and had to borrow someone else’s.—Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 27 Sep. 2025 If an item is mislaid, the owner most likely is looking for it and will come back to claim it.—Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 July 2025 That’s what Manchester City, who rediscovered their mojo having mislaid it for the best part of a year, did.—Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 27 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for mislay
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