as in wished
to offer (something fake, useless, or inferior) as genuine, useful, or valuable
another low-rent company trying to palm cheesy merchandise upon mail-order customers
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Recent Examples of palmed
Major League Baseball wagged a finger with one hand and palmed gate receipts and a new TV deal in the other.
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Jeremy Collins, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2025
Gross also got Brighton’s second after David de Gea palmed Solly March’s shot from right side of the box back into danger.
—Laurie Whitwell, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
Jeremy Collins, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2025
Gross also got Brighton’s second after David de Gea palmed Solly March’s shot from right side of the box back into danger.
—Laurie Whitwell, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for palmed
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The January transfer window ended with fewer signings than Nottingham Forest might have wished, but not with any shortage of drama.—
Paul Taylor,
New York Times,
4 Feb. 2026
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Just as the Founders would have wished!—
Alexandra Petri,
The Atlantic,
3 Feb. 2026
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Someone inflicted head and neck trauma on Octavio Arias that proved fatal, according to the medical examiner’s findings.—
Richard Winton,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Feb. 2026
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Jurors on Tuesday also found true the allegations that Moore intentionally discharged a firearm causing death, personally used a firearm and inflicted great bodily injury in the shootings.—
Darrell Smith,
Sacbee.com,
4 Feb. 2026
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At the 60-second mark is a quick scene of two primates with the Obamas' smiling faces imposed on them.—
BILL BARROW,
Arkansas Online,
7 Feb. 2026
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The United Nations imposed sanctions on Seif al-Islam that included a travel ban and an assets freeze for his inflammatory public statements encouraging violence against anti-Gadhafi protesters during the 2011 uprising.—
Yousef Murad,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Feb. 2026
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For decades, outsiders have foisted their foreign music upon us at the Super Bowl between commercials for Doritos and Budweiser.—
Lorraine Ali,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Feb. 2026
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Linda’s life is constructed of problems not of her own creation but foisted upon her.—
Angelica Jade Bastién,
Vulture,
19 Dec. 2025
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“Palmed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/palmed. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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