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
Todd Feurer, CBS News, 1 Dec. 2025
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
Adjective
He also was charged with misdemeanor counts of theft of mislaid property.
—Todd Feurer, CBS News, 1 Dec. 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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Fort Worth police are asking for the public’s help locating a missing 14-year-old boy, according to a post on the department’s Facebook page.—
Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
28 Mar. 2026
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The author or co-author of more than 40 books, Lee was finalizing a book on missing-persons investigations in his final days, the university's statement said.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
27 Mar. 2026
Verb
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The county gained 12,762 people from international migration and lost 6,978 people to domestic migration.—
Eleanor Dearman,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
26 Mar. 2026
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Some 1,270 counties lost residents in the year to July 1, 2025, according to Census Bureau figures out Thursday.—
Augusta Saraiva,
Bloomberg,
26 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Room by room, the author takes us through the house, now long gone.—
Mary Ann Grossmann,
Twin Cities,
8 Feb. 2026
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Retaining Hall, 39, keeps one familiar face from Dart’s rookie year on the offensive side of the building for his second NFL season, with Brian Daboll, Mike Kafka and Shea Tierney all long gone.—
Pat Leonard,
New York Daily News,
31 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Others, including some Democrats, see the focus on weapons detection as misplaced.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
24 Mar. 2026
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And what does that misplaced reverence say about us, about our capacity to contend with real mystery?—
Chandler Fritz,
The New York Review of Books,
21 Mar. 2026
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“Mislaid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mislaid. Accessed 2 Apr. 2026.
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