as in missing
no longer possessed
a traveler looking for his mislaid passport
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as in lost
to be unable to find or have at hand
I'm always mislaying my bus pass
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Recent Examples of mislaid
Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
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
Verb
So many things, dropped and lost and mislaid, twinkling all over the place like a museum/ junkyard.
—Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mislaid
Adjective
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Perilous Voyages More than 5,100 Rohingya have taken boats to leave Myanmar and Bangladesh between January and early November this year, with nearly 600 people reported dead or missing, according to data from the UN Refugee Agency.—
Reuters,
CNN Money,
9 Nov. 2025
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As of Friday, nine people remain missing, who are believed to have been in the area at the time of the crash, ABC News and WAVE reported.—
Escher Walcott,
PEOPLE,
8 Nov. 2025
Verb
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That, too, had echoes of last season, when City, the reigning champions, lost their way completely after a promising start, winning just one match out of 13 in all competitions between late October and late December.—
Oliver Kay,
New York Times,
8 Nov. 2025
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The major hubs of O'Hare, Atlanta, Denver and Dallas-Fort Worth rounded out the top five airports for cancellations, but those airports only lost around 3% of their flights.—
JOSH FUNK,
Arkansas Online,
8 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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And even with those two gone, Dubar slid down Boise State’s depth chart, managing just three carries for 12 yards so far in 2025.—
Shaun Goodwin,
Idaho Statesman,
5 Nov. 2025
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Not only are the views, of course, often repulsive, but the actual form of argument is not argument… That’s what interests me, that even the most basic principles that people have worked on for 2,000 years to establish what a fact means…gone.—
Josh Zajdman,
Vogue,
28 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Without these skills, outrage can spiral into paralysis or misplaced aggression.—
Marc Brackett,
Time,
28 Oct. 2025
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One loose bolt or misplaced screw is enough to grind the entire contraption to a halt.—
Robert Mays,
New York Times,
26 Oct. 2025
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“Mislaid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mislaid. Accessed 21 Nov. 2025.
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