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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
Hamas fighters who renounce fighting and wish to remain in Gaza will be granted amnesty, while others can take advantage of safe passage to third countries.
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Laura Kelly,
The Hill,
3 Oct. 2025
Despite his mother’s wish to keep the boy out of the Hollywood spotlight, his resemblance at 16 to his father was such that he was cast as Robert’s younger brother in Thunder Road.
Sealing the deal averted a potential Azeri invasion to secure unfettered access after Azerbaijan’s forces inflicted heavy defeats on Armenia’s army in 2020 and 2023 and pushed 120,000 Armenians out of Nagorno-Karabakh.
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Michele Crestani,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
One of the key pieces of evidence during the trial was a 2016 hotel security video of Combs kicking, punching and knocking Ventura to the ground; prosecutors also showed photos of bruising and other injuries that Ventura alleged were inflicted by Combs throughout their decade-long relationship.
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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