The industry's apparent misplacing of its creative abilities could not have occurred at a worse moment.

The misplacing of even a single wire would put it entirely out of order.

A temporary misplacing of the documents may not bring an automatic expulsion from the tournament, but it will produce an investigation.

Many intros and captions are spoilt by the misplacing of these words, which makes the sentence sound like a translation from German.

After a 35-minute delay occasioned by the misplacing of some of the orchestral parts, the work's 15-minute Prologue was performed, followed by another 20-minute wait, during which the music was found.

The performance on Sunday night, at the Byham, a restored 1904 vaudeville theater in downtown Pittsburgh, went off without a hitch except for the temporary misplacing of Ms. Tauber.

LEAD: A map of Miami on Feb. 7 included a number of errors, including the mislabeling of streets and the misplacing of labels for areas of the city.

A human misplacing or mispronouncing only one of the vowels in this phrase will find cats smiling gently at him and asking him why he wants to feed the litter-box to the taxicab?

Other topics that the overarching subject raises include that of Atlantis, and how it was considered by Plato to be a kind of lost paradise, and Sigmund Freud's theory about subconscious intentional misplacing of objects.

Supposedly a son of Áed Find (died 778) and successor to Áed's brother Fergus mac Echdach, Eochaid is now thought to represent a misplacing of the reign of Eochaid mac Echdach.

It is known that there are parties interested in exhuming it for official release, including Sony Music Japan, but that this is currently impeded by the misplacing of the master tapes at Sony Records in America who purchased the catalog some years ago.

And yet in arguings and learned contests, the same sort of proceedings passes commonly for wit and learning; but to me it appears a greater dishonesty than the misplacing of counters in the casting up a debt; and the cheat the greater, by how much truth is of greater concernment and value than money.

Some seem to have been misplaced, but it's hard to tell just how.

If you walk around the house, you'll see nothing misplaced.

I could say a good deal; but perhaps it would be misplaced.

He seems to be misplacing things a lot these days.

I think your confidence in our young friend was misplaced.

The focus is misplaced; it needs to be on the student.

But at least some of the criticism may be misplaced.

Certainly some of the earlier building activity may have been misplaced effort.

"Perhaps the last were misplaced during the confusion of death."

The boy looked around the hotel room as if he'd misplaced half his life in it.

Is it possible, however, that much of the concern has really been misplaced.

However, most of us have misplaced them on the road through this frequently difficult life.

They took photographs that were soon misplaced, never to be found.

The attention on my personal decision, while understandable, is misplaced.

Offensive was too strong a word - misplaced would have been better.

Also, I seem to have misplaced one of my sandals.

Then he misplaced some organs, and the family found out.

I hate to say this, but they seem to be misplaced for the time being.

Why not the Congo where even more people have died and been misplaced?

But all of these people have to some degree misplaced their feelings.

"I seem to have misplaced your official report on the incident."

I know your morality is still there, even if misplaced.

"I trust you will find your confidence in me is not misplaced."

Probably not, which is why they're easy to misplace and forget about.

"Am I to take it that you have somehow misplaced her?"