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
Still they forgot things, like a $600 spare key fob for Frank’s truck.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026
"We get tons of people inquiring about stories, and normally we kind of fob them off a bit," he said.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
If you want to stop the key fob signal altogether, you can turn off the feature, Sutter said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2025
Regardless, he opened it with the key fob and tossed the precious portfolio in the back seat.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
"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
The watchdog identified an "inflexible and indiscriminate" approach to the use of key fobs to control access to internal doors and gates, regardless of whether service users had capacity.
From BBC ● May 15, 2025
It’s then that I remember the email that said we’d need our key fobs to access the pool if we wanted to swim before eight a.m. on weekdays.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
A woman says she was "fobbed off by the NHS" and "adenomyosis ruined my life".
From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2026
"Too much of my job really is taken up advising victims who feel fobbed off by the police when they report coercive control," she said.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2025
"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
"I feel totally fobbed off by Bellway," he says.
From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2025
Marcel added, while Bourke gasped for breath, that the gentleman in question had spoken to him alone, in the absence of other waiters, and had been fobbed off with a lie.
From The Lone Wolf A Melodrama by Louis Joseph Vance
"I feel that they're fobbing me off really. I've reported this crime. It is the police's job to investigate it," she said.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2025
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
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
After unsuccessfully fobbing us off with endless series of Ross Kemp looking macho, Sky is now throwing serious money at getting viewers to watch something other than sport.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 11, 2011
At the time it seemed to me that he was bent on fobbing me off.
From The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
