as in wishes
to offer (something fake, useless, or inferior) as genuine, useful, or valuable
please stop trying to palm off your leftovers onto me
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For now, survey research with elderly nuns, including those in Nakawoojwa's care, is ongoing, funded by an Irish donor who wishes to remain anonymous.—
Sophie Neiman,
NPR,
20 June 2026 -
But given the current box office sensations of Obsession and Backrooms, Tiddes certainly wishes the timing had allowed for spoofs of those horror movies.—
Brian Davids,
HollywoodReporter,
17 June 2026
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If Clark does manage to get passes off, USC’s lockdown secondary has the chance to live up to the hype.—
Haley Sawyer,
Oc Register,
29 Aug. 2025
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Sibley, trying to get between Popov and his friends, made contact with the teen, palms out and open handed, and Popov stabbed him in the heart, Jafari said.—
John Annese,
New York Daily News,
11 May 2026
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Not work-life-balance-wise, but that’s sort of one of the ways that imposes itself.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
19 June 2026
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The charging-time penalty the new method imposes could be less than three seconds per session—a pretty tolerable penalty for a potential gain of two or three extra years of useful battery life.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
17 June 2026
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The media usually get Black femicide wrong Another problem surrounding intimate partner homicide inflicts its harms after death.—
Sativa Banks,
The Conversation,
4 June 2026
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Instead of providing convenience, services and consumption, the regime only inflicts repression, intrusion and censorship.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
16 May 2026
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“Palms off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/palms%20off. Accessed 21 Jun. 2026.
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