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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
As Minnesota scrambled to backcheck, Zach Ashton-Reese sent a long pass off the end boards next to Gustavsson, where Miles Wood was able to tack down the puck and snap a low shot past the Wild goalie.
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Jess Myers,
Twin Cities,
12 Oct. 2025
That led to a counterattack and a fluky goal when Matvei Gridin banked a centring pass off Noah Philp and by Skinner, getting the Flames on the board.
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Daniel Nugent-Bowman,
New York Times,
9 Oct. 2025
Portlanders understand the tragic reality that’s been inflicted on us, which is why resistance here often looks more like performance art than warfare.
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MSNBC Newsweek,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Oct. 2025
Joe Podraza, a lawyer for Greenberg's parents, has said that this wound was inflicted after Greenberg's heart stopped beating.
Comey received a slight boost in his case to plead his innocence earlier this week when a judge rejected federal prosecutors’ effort to impose broad restrictions on the evidence Comey can access ahead of trial.
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Emily Hallas,
The Washington Examiner,
18 Oct. 2025
The latest food shortage in Gaza began in March, when Israel ended a ceasefire and imposed a blockade on all aid that lasted eleven weeks.
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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