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Recent Examples of palm offAnd there’s an art to delegating, without seemingly palming off work to your team.—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
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Yuval Boger,
Forbes,
5 Nov. 2024
Former members of the Wagner paramilitary company, for instance, might wish to use such warheads against Ukraine, or Russians fighting on Ukraine’s behalf might wish to attack a Russian city.
The Arizona Republic, part of the USA TODAY Network, traveled to the Klamath last year for a series of stories about the damage inflicted by the dams and the work to restore wildlife habitat and ancestral homelands.
Debra Utacia Krol,
USA TODAY,
5 Nov. 2024
Even in its only domestic defeat of the season - a 4-2 loss to Osasuna - Barca got on the scoresheet twice, and there have been goal-heavy thrashings inflicted on the likes of Valladolid (7-0), Girona (1-4), Villarreal (1-5), Alaves (0-3), Sevilla (5-1), Real Madrid (0-4) and now Espanyol (3-1).
Arriving via the gorgeous gardens of Grosvenor Square, my partner and I oohed and aahed at the imposing marble, opulent chandeliers and old-world glamour of the hotel lobby.
Caroline Dolby,
theweek,
5 Nov. 2024
China has railed against tariffs on its electric vehicles imposed by the EU and Washington among others.
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
Most chose instead to fob off the hard decisions to central bankers.
Even his tattoos are a conspicuous map of his touchstones: a portrait of Stevie Wonder, a hand palming a basketball printed with THE WORLD IS YOURS, an illustration related to the 1976 blaxploitation film The Human Tornado.
Connor Garel,
Vulture,
29 Aug. 2024
This is not Boban Marjanović fully palming Keanu Reeves’s head in John Wick 3.
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