as in wishing
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 palming
Of the billionaires who line up on the Messeplatz for the First Choice VIP opening at Art Basel, few would be out of place palming handshakes and quaffing Champagne at the Steigenberger Icon Grandhotel Belvédère.
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Nate Freeman,
Vanity Fair,
20 Mar. 2026
The school also posted a picture of the center, who reportedly has a 7-4 wingspan, palming two basketballs on the program’s website.
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Alex Valdes,
New York Times,
1 Jan. 2026
Nate Freeman,
Vanity Fair,
20 Mar. 2026
The school also posted a picture of the center, who reportedly has a 7-4 wingspan, palming two basketballs on the program’s website.
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Alex Valdes,
New York Times,
1 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for palming
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More recently, it’s been revived in its traditional leather form by brands and designers wishing to capture our more casual moment in an elegant format.
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The country singer joined the many friends and family wishing the Eyes Wide Shut actress a happy 59th birthday on June 20.
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Yet meaningful change has been slow to materialize, souring views of Starmer’s premiership and inflicting heavy losses on the Labour Party in local government elections in May, which virtually sealed his fate.
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Minnesota is among the states with a history of forcibly removing Indigenous children from their families and subjecting them to years in boarding schools that aimed to erase Native cultures, inflicting centuries of intergenerational trauma.
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Incumbents have run on the perception that the transplants who have moved into working-class neighborhoods are pushing residents out while imposing their politics on more moderate communities of color.
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The building should be the most beautiful and imposing structure in the entire state.
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No foisting me on another mother too overwhelmed to notice.
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In the vein of each family dwelling, the village courtroom becomes an amphitheater of sorts, foisting upon its participants a sense of outward performance, while simultaneously exposing them to the elements.
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“Palming.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/palming. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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