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Recent Examples of palm off
The unique shape helps keep your palm off the table while offering a spot for your thumb to rest.
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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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for palm off
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The topic of banning phones at gigs has been a contentious one over the years, with artists wishing for fans to live in the moment, and fans desiring a chance to memorialize their concert experiences.—
Tyler Jenke,
Billboard,
5 Aug. 2025
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Bunting celebrated her birthday at one of the new businesses, Sea Grill Restaurant & Bar, but wishes there were more attractions at the center.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
5 Aug. 2025
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Still, that’s hardly a hurdle for anyone motivated to pass off AI generated images as authentic.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
7 Aug. 2025
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But these chatbots are also employed to quickly generate text from scratch, with some users passing off the words as their own.—
Roger J. Kreuz,
The Conversation,
30 July 2025
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Yet, despite inflicting relentless pain, their fury remains unquenched.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
5 Aug. 2025
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The difference is that this time, the suffering is being inflicted by a state that should know too well the horrors of systemic dehumanization.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Aug. 2025
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In addition to pharma tariffs, Trump has threatened to impose across-the-board tariffs on semiconductors and lumber.—
Elisabeth Buchwald,
CNN Money,
7 Aug. 2025
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When Trump threatened to impose tariffs, the Mexican government made the concession of not just sending troops to the border and to cities like Culiacán, but of also allowing the U.S. military to fly in Mexican airspace.—
Jesse Hyde,
Rolling Stone,
7 Aug. 2025
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While attempting to film his daughter's dance, Miguel Angel Michel, 66, couldn't control his feet and eventually fobbed off his phone altogether, earning 4.2 million views on TikTok.—
Lucy Notarantonio,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 July 2025
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Not only does Israel not have spare luxury jets lying around to fob off on the American president, but the country took nine years to retrofit and launch its own version of Air Force One, and the process was a national fiasco.—
Yair Rosenberg,
The Atlantic,
22 May 2025
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Russo had an opportunity to open the scoring after less than three minutes when she was played in by Bronze, but her shot from a tight angle was palmed away by Cata Coll and cleared by Ona Batlle.—
Jamie Barton,
CNN Money,
27 July 2025
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One of the others mimed palming the girl’s rear while the third snapped a photo.—
Dan Greene,
New Yorker,
26 May 2025
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“Palm off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/palm%20off. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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