fob
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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
The shock came days later when he took the car to a local Kia dealership to ask about a faulty button on the key fob designed to access the boot.
From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2025
Ms Mannings reflected on how people often ask "are you OK?" - but it's a vague question, easy to "fob off".
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2025
He cupped his bloodstone watch fob in his palm.
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
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
Auto technology has evolved and many newer cars use wireless key fobs and push-button starters instead of traditional metal keys.
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
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 was absolutely gutted and every phone call I made to the Bournemouth office, I got fobbed off."
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2025
"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
But the persistent Harold was not to be fobbed off.
From The Golden Age by Kenneth Grahame
"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
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 A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
