as in to wish
to offer (something fake, useless, or inferior) as genuine, useful, or valuable
the con man tried to pass off a piece of blue glass as a sapphire
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Once on the ground, Jason & Co. learn that Drew has a side hustle, training the SOGs on the side (passing off Rambo movie moves as non-standard SEAL tactics).
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Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 12 Aug. 2024
Lake tried to pass off her hostility to McCain as a joke earlier this year, sparking another round of anger from McCain’s daughter Meghan McCain.
—Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2024
In January, officials carried out raids at 50 restaurants in Rome and found seed oil being passed off as extra virgin olive oil.
—Barbie Nadeau, CNN, 11 July 2024
Rumors began to spread of agave farmers from the tequila region sneaking off to Oaxaca, at the southern end of Mexico and decidedly outside the parameters of tequila country, to load up their trucks with local agaves to smuggle back into Jalisco and pass off as blue Weber.
—Chantal Martineau, Foreign Affairs, 25 Nov. 2015
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Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 12 Aug. 2024
Lake tried to pass off her hostility to McCain as a joke earlier this year, sparking another round of anger from McCain’s daughter Meghan McCain.
—Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2024
In January, officials carried out raids at 50 restaurants in Rome and found seed oil being passed off as extra virgin olive oil.
—Barbie Nadeau, CNN, 11 July 2024
Rumors began to spread of agave farmers from the tequila region sneaking off to Oaxaca, at the southern end of Mexico and decidedly outside the parameters of tequila country, to load up their trucks with local agaves to smuggle back into Jalisco and pass off as blue Weber.
—Chantal Martineau, Foreign Affairs, 25 Nov. 2015
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