fob
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Most recently, in March, her BMW was stolen from outside her home using an antenna to amplify the signal from the key fob inside her house.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
Still they forgot things, like a $600 spare key fob for Frank’s truck.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 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
In the Anaheim Hills incidents, one of the vehicles was stolen by thieves accessing the key fob signal through an antenna.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2025
A chain of gold girded his belly and from the fob of his watch a rabbit’s foot dangled.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
Some smart fobs now let you disable the signal at night.
From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2026
"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
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
But Michelle felt "fobbed off", the hearing was told.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
A woman says she was "fobbed off by the NHS" and "adenomyosis ruined my life".
From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2026
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 was absolutely gutted and every phone call I made to the Bournemouth office, I got fobbed off."
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2025
And, by Jove! she fobbed that fool off again!
From Father Stafford by Anthony Hope
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
“You can’t play those parts by just looking at them and fobbing them off,” he said.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 13, 2019
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
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