fob
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"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
It pops out when it needs to be used, either automatically through the user’s key fob or phone, or manually by pressing the handle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 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
“My props master came through and had the most beautiful watch fob with the head of a wolf on it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2024
“Another fob? Some cuff links or a nice watch? I spoil myself too much as it is. You’d be doing me a favor by taking it off my hands.”
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
"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
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
Automakers have started adding motion sensors to key fobs.
From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2024
Improvised strategies such as wrapping fobs in aluminum foil or placing fobs inside tin cans have proved effective.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 29, 2024
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
A woman says she was "fobbed off by the NHS" and "adenomyosis ruined my life".
From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2026
But 59-year-old Franklin said she had been "fobbed off" by the company.
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2026
When the nurses raised their concerns, they "genuinely felt they were not being taken seriously" and were "being in essence fobbed off by senior management and seen as trouble-makers", the panel said.
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 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, however, maintained that I ought to have mentioned that I was an affianced, and have refused to sit at any banquet at which she was fobbed off with a cold shoulder.
From Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. by Anstey, F.
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
At the time it seemed to me that he was bent on fobbing me off.
From The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)
