as in wished
to offer (something fake, useless, or inferior) as genuine, useful, or valuable
people who try to fob off to charities broken-down furniture that is fit only for the junkyard
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The girlfriend, who wished not to be named, believes the shooter may have been targeting the wrong man since Ortiz was so new to the neighborhood.
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In an Instagram post shared on Sunday, June 21, the content creator and father of nine wished fellow dads a happy Father's Day.
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Specifically, what is happening between Israelis and Palestinians is a real tragedy — two peoples, both real, both with real claims, both having inflicted harm and suffered it.
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In Lebanon, many Shiites have been marking Muharram after the devastation inflicted during the war between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.
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The agreement imposed limits on Iran's nuclear program to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons.
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Sanctions relief for Iran would follow a timetable that Washington and Tehran would need to agree upon and extend to the removal of punitive measures imposed on the country by the UN Security Council and the International Atomic Energy Agency Board of Governors.
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Sure enough, a member of the security team snagged the jersey, and it was passed off to a man who admired the jersey sitting in the ride behind Leo.
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The original movie was passed off as a documentary on death, but paired mostly staged violence with real footage taken at murder scenes and accident sites, blurring the lines between fiction and reality.
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While other firms have trimmed entry-level hiring as AI takes over the admin tasks normally palmed off to younger workers, EY is actively investing in early-career talent.
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Mariano Rivera is now synonymous with Metallica’s Enter Sandman, a song that was foisted upon the soft-spoken reliever by the Yankees’ marketing team.
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There's absolutely no demand for this, it's just foisted upon us by our cultural overlords.
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“Fobbed off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fobbed%20off. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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