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Recent Examples of palm offThe unique shape helps keep your palm off the table while offering a spot for your thumb to rest.—Brenda Stolyar, Wired News, 9 May 2025 And there’s an art to delegating, without seemingly palming off work to your team.—Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2023 Giannoli’s narrator lays out press performance in Balzacian details that sound absolutely contemporary: News, debate, and ideas had become goods to palm off on subscribers.—Armond White, National Review, 10 June 2022 However, in spite of this price increase and attempts to palm off blame, there is hardly any middle-class anger even resembling that which existed during the last years of the UPA.—Shoaib Daniyal, Quartz India, 21 Feb. 2021
States With Medicaid Requirements Released For Public Comment Iowa, South Carolina and Utah are all wishing for amendments to be made to their state policies regarding Medicaid work requirements and each are still at the public comment stage of the process.
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Jasmine Laws,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 May 2025
As part of the settlement, students in the club who wish to participate in the game will be able to do so with a parental permission slip.
Then Rantanen made a slick bank pass off the boards to Mason Marchment, which started a rush the other way.
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Corey Masisak,
Denver Post,
25 Apr. 2025
Trump pointed to a situation in which Vice President Vance runs for and wins the White House and passes off the job to him, even though that is expressly prohibited by the 12th Amendment.
But despite previous transparency around the cost-cutting measures, employees inquiring about how the budget cuts have impacted their performance review will now be fobbed off.
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Orianna Rosa Royle,
Fortune,
29 Aug. 2023
Most chose instead to fob off the hard decisions to central bankers.
Onana allowed Thiago Almada’s 25th-minute free-kick to go straight in while Rayan Cherki’s equaliser deep into stoppage time at the end of the game came after the goalkeeper palmed Corentin Tolisso’s effort back into his path.
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David Ornstein,
New York Times,
13 Apr. 2025
Slicing this way makes the lemons easier to palm.
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Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott,
Southern Living,
27 Feb. 2025
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