as in wishing
to offer (something fake, useless, or inferior) as genuine, useful, or valuable
people who try to fob off to charities broken-down furniture that is fit only for the junkyard
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The first lady spoke as well, wishing all Americans a happy Easter.—
Ashley J. DiMella,
FOXNews.com,
6 Apr. 2026 -
The senators who kill the filibuster today will spend years wishing someone had saved it.—
Tony Vanderhoef,
Sun Sentinel,
2 Apr. 2026
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One bill advancing in the statehouse would prohibit a city or county in Illinois from imposing a tax on businesses calculated based on their number of employees — also known as a head tax.—
Jeremy Gorner,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Apr. 2026
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Washington State began imposing such taxes at the start of this year.—
Bautista Vivanco,
Boston Herald,
4 Apr. 2026
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Any mission would likely first focus on opening the Strait of Hormuz, the strategic waterway through which a fifth of seaborne global oil flowed before the war but which has now slowed to a trickle, inflicting the biggest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market.—
Patrick Sykes,
Fortune,
29 Mar. 2026
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Traffic through the strait has fallen by 90% since the start of the Iran war, sending global oil prices skyrocketing and inflicting alarming shortages on the Asian nations that get their oil from Persian Gulf countries via the strait.—
David McHugh,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Mar. 2026
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Adam Gordon, the book’s protagonist, is always passing off someone else’s language as his own.—
Andrew Marantz,
New Yorker,
5 Apr. 2026
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But the overall reality is simple, lying in the hands of the head man still pulling the strings despite passing off the play-calling reins.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
15 Mar. 2026
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“Fobbing off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fobbing%20off. Accessed 7 Apr. 2026.
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