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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Now that these documents are public, there are still 37 pages that remain missing from the database, according to NPR's calculation.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
6 Mar. 2026
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His personal belongings, including gold jewelry, also went missing.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
6 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Tottenham Hotspur have lost six games in a row for the first time in their 144-year history.—
Jay Harris,
New York Times,
12 Mar. 2026
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The Timberwolves have lost three in a row after winning five straight.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
12 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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Christine Mohamed, the executive director of the Pittsburgh chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said conflict can trickle over and lead to misplaced blame.—
Josh Taylor,
CBS News,
2 Mar. 2026
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Second, related to the ROI challenge, there is the misplaced focus on eliminating low-skill work.—
Peter Cappelli,
Fortune,
28 Feb. 2026
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“Mislaid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mislaid. Accessed 12 Mar. 2026.
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