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lost and found

American  
Or lost-and-found

noun

  1. a room in a public place for items left behind and from which the owners may retrieve them.


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The rideshare company announced that it was rolling out a new lost and found reporting process in its apps, which would be launched nationwide by the end of the year.

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026

Cash, credit cards, and doctor’s office cards — it would have been easy to leave it with the driver or at a random lost and found.

From Salon • Mar. 26, 2025

Her absence became a punchline at the 2016 Emmy Awards when host Jimmy Kimmel swiped her supporting actress trophy, saying they wouldn’t mail it but that she could get it at the lost and found.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2024

Zoe Kurland: And today, we throw our hat in the ring with the story of Eunice: how the mother of the greenhouse gas effect got lost and found.

From Scientific American • Nov. 9, 2023

“For being forgetful? For needlessly troubling the good people of lost and found? I wish they would. Did you get what you needed?”

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older

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