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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
Lots of men would have passed off that rod because the fish fought so hard.
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Bob McNally,
Outdoor Life,
4 Sep. 2025
While mass luxury may pass off plastic handbags or interior car seats as leather, such compromises cheapen the value perception in the eyes of those who know better.
In its lawsuit, Ryan LLC argued that the noncompete ban would inflict irreparable harm by enabling its employees to leave for the competition, potentially taking with them valuable skills and information gained on the job.
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Andrea Hsu,
NPR,
5 Sep. 2025
But most people, when presented with images of immense and deliberately inflicted human suffering, have a human response.
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Jack Sheehan
September 4,
Literary Hub,
4 Sep. 2025
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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