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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
Restrictions were also imposed at airports in Volgograd, Kaluga, Penza, Samara, Pskov and Yaroslavl.
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David Brennan,
ABC News,
28 Sep. 2025
Abarca had allegedly thrown his wife to the ground during an argument, charging documents said, that led to her asking a judge to impose a restraining order against him.
Your potential clients are terrified of being sold the dream then fobbed off to a junior team member.
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Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
21 Aug. 2025
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.
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