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misplace | American Dictionary

misplace
verb[ T ]
us/mɪsˈpleɪs/
to lose something, esp. temporarily, by forgetting where you put it:
I am always misplacing my eyeglasses.

Examples of misplace

misplace
It had either been misplaced or filed away.
This contrasts with the greater willingness of the post-1997 government-largely borne of a greater (if perhaps misplaced) sense of legitimacy-to attempt such reforms.
In the event, the government's confidence in the security services was not misplaced.
In early modern times that confidence was not misplaced; but the contemporary situation is full of contradictions.
Neurons with pyramidal-cell morphology in stratum radiatum were excluded for recording of interneurons in case they are misplaced pyramidal cells.
Canons, being brief, are often on unlabelled single leaves, easily mislabelled or misplaced and not infrequently disappearing into private collections.
A couple of entries seem to have been misplaced, however.
Both contemporary fears about the deleterious effects of intervention and academic assumptions about state control of the elderly seem misplaced.
Intonation structure, when misplaced, can make an utterance sound entirely unnatural or even convey the wrong information.
Another problem was that the noise, apparent in wide distribution of the clusters, probably caused some spikes to be misplaced.
Thus, the question of who members were is to a large extent is misplaced.
Unfortunately, their optimism has proved to be misplaced.
These findings suggest that the emphasis on the distinction between behavioral and characterological blame in victimization research may be misplaced.
The latter sections indicate very clearly how earlier preconceptions have been misplaced.
Confusion resulting from misplaced references is not likely to emerge during survey assessments, for example, because subjects will respond based on their interpretation.
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