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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Recent Examples of pass off
The first-seven-minutes clip though shows some entirely different characters and a man’s desperate attempt to try to pass off the demons pursuing him.
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Brian Welk, IndieWire, 4 Nov. 2024
Prescott has been wildly inconsistent tonight but threw the perfect pass off his back foot to find Tolbert on a crossing route.
—Andrew Greif, NBC News, 7 Oct. 2024
For example, in-house staff would handle quality control and strategy, making sure that whatever work is passed off to an agency or freelancer(s) aligns with your brand’s long-term goals.
—Yates Jarvis, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
Leadership and teams were finger-pointing and passing off blame.
—Anne Sugar, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
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Brian Welk, IndieWire, 4 Nov. 2024
Prescott has been wildly inconsistent tonight but threw the perfect pass off his back foot to find Tolbert on a crossing route.
—Andrew Greif, NBC News, 7 Oct. 2024
For example, in-house staff would handle quality control and strategy, making sure that whatever work is passed off to an agency or freelancer(s) aligns with your brand’s long-term goals.
—Yates Jarvis, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
Leadership and teams were finger-pointing and passing off blame.
—Anne Sugar, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pass off
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Research on Caucasian women in the Midwest shows that women in the workplace often face envious and negative communication from other women who wish to undermine their success.Mark Travers, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
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Sharing family photos from celebrations with her husband and kids, the mom of three shared her gratitude for another year of life and well wishes from friends and fans alike.Angela Andaloro, People.com, 1 Jan. 2025
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But his policies have inflicted widespread hardship.María Magdalena Arréllaga, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
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Over the past 45 years, tropical cyclones have inflicted more than $1 trillion in damage, Smith said.Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 28 Dec. 2024
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Kansas imposed a proof-of-citizenship requirement more than a decade ago that grew into one of the biggest political fiascos in the state in recent memory.John Hanna, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2024
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The appellate ruling also revoked the $24,000 in sanctions imposed on Gableman under the lower court ruling.Daniel Bice, Journal Sentinel, 27 Dec. 2024
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And there’s an art to delegating, without seemingly palming off work to your team.Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2023
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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
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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
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Pick something that looks tasty and slightly intimidating and clumsily palm some chopsticks.Bradley Hohulin, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Sep. 2024
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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
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