mislaying 1 of 2

as in loss
the act or an instance of not having or being able to find your mislaying of the car keys caused us to be late for work once again

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mislaying

2 of 2

verb

present participle of mislay

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Noun
  • But more important to the story than the autobiographical details, which in any case are swallowed up by the vortex of fiction, is the devastating loss of meaning that accompanies the death of a child.
    Karl Ove Knausgaard, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2025
  • For midlife patients, that often means managing menopause symptoms, bone loss and metabolic changes brought on by hormone therapy.
    Lauryn Higgins, Flow Space, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The disappointment of losing to Watertown yet again, this time a 2-1 decision in early September that could’ve gone the other way.
    Tom Mulherin, Boston Herald, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Already, animators are losing their jobs because it’s now done by AI, and soon, everything can be done perfectly by AI.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Their latest controversy comes a day after Bell admitted to forgetting their wedding anniversary on the red carpet.
    Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Oct. 2025
  • To be useful, our memories are dynamic rather than static, which is why forgetting is an active process, a feature and not a bug.
    Big Think, Big Think, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Officers then conducted a welfare check and while her phone was there, both her car and wallet were missing.
    Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025
  • On October 7th, at the Senate Judiciary Committee’s oversight hearing for Attorney General Pam Bondi, four Democratic senators—Sheldon Whitehouse, of Rhode Island; Mazie Hirono, of Hawaii; Alex Padilla, of California; and Peter Welch, of Vermont—also raised the matter of the missing fifty thousand.
    Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
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“Mislaying.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mislaying. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.

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