fob
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It’s roughly the same size as my 2011-era car key fob and it sticks out, especially on small wrists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
The doors typically don’t unlock when I approach the car until I pull out the key fob and hit the unlock button.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 20, 2025
The bag or box is made out of conductive metal mesh that blocks the electromagnetic signals that emit from the key fob, according to AAA.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2025
The pocket watch, its chain and fob was found by divers at the bottom of the lake, in Wisconsin, in September 1992.
From BBC ● May 23, 2025
He also wore a fob watch and a chain.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
"They're in all modern cell phones, key fobs, garage door openers, most GPS receivers, many radar systems and more."
From Science Daily ● Jan. 17, 2026
Experts suggest keeping key fobs near the center of the home so the signal is harder to pick up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2025
Hikers carry fobs and must scan in at four checkpoints 7 miles apart and depart by a certain time or quit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2025
"My mum asked me why and I said 'can't you see he's no good? He fobs people off by telling different stories'."
From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2025
Most gang members in the Barrel loved flash: gaudy waistcoats, watch fobs studded with false gems, trousers in every print and pattern imaginable.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
Some feel "fobbed off" that concerns over side effects are not taken seriously and are also fed up of bearing the "contraceptive burden", says Hall.
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2026
"I have to do the chasing, they never ring me, I've explained my situation, I'm really struggling and I just get fobbed off," he said.
From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2025
She said she felt "fobbed off" when she told doctors about her constipation and rectal bleeding.
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2024
The victims commissioner for England and Wales said she often hears of victims being "ignored or fobbed off" by police forces.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2024
Well, I ne'er acted part in all my life, But still I was fobbed off with some such wife.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 by Sir Walter Scott
They’re asking that HHS deal directly with their case instead of fobbing it off to the NIH, which would bring it under the purview of HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2023
"This has been going on for 20 years, at least 20 years, and the council have been fobbing us off time and time again," said the 77-year-old.
From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2023
A major challenge will be keeping researchers from simply treating the requirement as another box to tick or fobbing the work off on minority scientists, Hodari says.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 4, 2022
Instead of fobbing women off with wobbly perks, she says, employers need to reorganise work so that people – men and women – needn’t have to choose between a career and a family.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 7, 2016
And so saying, under sufferance of being small, the plenipo was permitted to depart unmolested; for all his bravadoes, fobbing his credentials and affronts.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Herman Melville
