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Recent Examples of palm off
And there’s an art to delegating, without seemingly palming off work to your team.
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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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for palm off
Verb
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If the account owner wishes to withdraw more than the RMD amount, this is allowed.—
Mark Davis,
Newsweek,
14 Mar. 2025
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Burt buys Irving a one-way ticket and wishes him well as Irving heads off into the unknown.—
Ethan Shanfeld,
Variety,
14 Mar. 2025
Verb
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If the courts find that Moderna infringed the patents, the company should pay its own penalty, not pass off the cost to hardworking American taxpayers.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
Newsweek,
25 Feb. 2025
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Sprung by a pass off the wall from the neutral zone by linemate James van Riemsdyk, Johnson tracked the puck down and pulled to a quick stop on the left dot to create a bit of space with Sabres defenseman Bowen Byram.—
Aaron Portzline,
The Athletic,
5 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Palico's attacks with blunt weapons do not inflict stun and exhaust damages.—
Faisal Kutty,
Newsweek,
11 Mar. 2025
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Most of the long-range kamikaze drones and missiles employed in recent conflicts have been shot down; those that get through tend to inflict little damage on their targets.—
Stacie L. Pettyjohn,
Foreign Affairs,
10 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Trump earlier announced 25 percent targeted tariffs on Canada and Mexico, his country’s largest trade partners, and has threatened to impose tariffs on all Canadian goods imported into the U.S. on April 2.—
Etan Vlessing,
The Hollywood Reporter,
17 Mar. 2025
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This agreement, and others like it, didn’t do very much to mitigate the high tariffs imposed by the McKinley and Dingley Acts.—
John Cassidy,
The New Yorker,
17 Mar. 2025
Verb
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But despite previous transparency around the cost-cutting measures, employees inquiring about how the budget cuts have impacted their performance review will now be fobbed off.—
Orianna Rosa Royle,
Fortune,
29 Aug. 2023
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Most chose instead to fob off the hard decisions to central bankers.—
William Pesek,
Forbes,
10 Sep. 2021
Verb
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Both teams threatened with Mikel Merino’s header palmed away by Matz Sels and David Raya denying Chris Wood at the other end.—
James McNicholas,
The Athletic,
26 Feb. 2025
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His stunning, one-handed outlet passes — often completed in a single fluid motion, without ever bringing the ball below his shoulders after palming the rebound — resemble water polo passes.—
Bennett Durando,
The Denver Post,
16 Feb. 2025
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“Palm off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/palm%20off. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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