palmed

past tense of palm
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 The result was the same — chaos in the six-yard box that restricted Altay Bayindir, who palmed the ball straight onto Calafiori’s forehead. Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
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  • O'Connor wished Manganiello a happy birthday in December.
    Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Oct. 2025
  • In the comment section, many people wished Mia a happy birthday.
    Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
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  • The war has also inflicted significant damage on Hamas’ supplies of its heaviest weapons and its weapons manufacturing capabilities, as well as on its senior leadership.
    Matt Bradley, NBC news, 21 Oct. 2025
  • But the most important part of the story left unseen in the series is the gut-wrenching violence Gacy inflicted on his victims, both those who died and the few who survived.
    Hunter Ingram, Variety, 18 Oct. 2025
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  • Firstly, the scale and intensity of the sanctions imposed on it are unique.
    Leila Gharagozlou, CNN Money, 19 Oct. 2025
  • But the Biden administration imposed rules in 2022 to restrict the export of Nvidia’s most advanced AI chips to China, leading the company to design a processor that met the new limits.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2025
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  • United must also soon refinance the long-term debt foisted on them by the Glazers’ leveraged buyout 20 years ago, with interest rates set to rise, potentially adding several million pounds to the club’s bill each year.
    Dan Sheldon, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
  • That aspect of the dispute will be closely watched across the industry, which has embraced streaming but in so doing foisted an unwieldy user experience on viewers of sports.
    Dade Hayes, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2025

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“Palmed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/palmed. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.

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