misplace
verb (used with object)
to put in a wrong place.
misplaced
Example Sentences
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The council's focus on creating lots of jobs locally is misplaced, Matthew believes.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
I’ve been an eyewitness to lost specimens turning up in a museum when a colleague spotted a dinosaur skull and pterosaur skeleton sitting on the wrong shelf like misplaced library books.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
So let me offer a different lineup, since the country seems to have misplaced it.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
“The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist,” he said in his 1961 farewell speech, of the newly developed “permanent armaments industry of vast proportions.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
It says, “a misplaced or excessive admiration for a particular person or thing.”
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
