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Instead, lenders and credit firms can foist the costs onto taxpayers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 15, 2026

Second, Marc Rowan, VCs like Peter Thiel, and hedge fund managers like Bill Ackman and Leon Cooperman have been sharply critical of these schools as they work to foist changes in leadership and curriculum.

From Barron's ● Dec. 5, 2025

Long delays will mean shippers will be trying to foist mushy brown bananas on consumers who might reject them.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2024

In the estimate of Bloomberg financial columnist Matt Levine, the goal is indistinguishable from encouraging them to find “some retail rubes” to foist the shares on.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2021

The waiter tried to foist Toucinho do Ceu and Mousse de Chocolate on them, but Dimple declined for the both of them.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon

Perhaps the Fed’s greatest political liability is its loquacity—the policy statements, economic projections, speeches, press conferences, meeting minutes and the rest that the central bank foists on the public.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026

Lyle Lanley, voiced by Phil Hartman, is the perfect con-man for Springfield, as he foists on them the disastrous and unnecessary monorail, playing on their desire for oneupmanship over neighbouring Shelbyville.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 28, 2019

But the terrible choice the dramatist foists on the mother feels heavy-handed, and that she gets only one chance to explain herself lends to a sense of a character being underserved.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 9, 2019

Yes, she foists food at her loved ones in moments of crisis.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2017

Rather, it foists itself on the eye of the passerby in a manner that is both irritating and melancholy.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

This is a title they have foisted upon themselves.

From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2025

Many sported blue WGA shirts emblazoned with the union logo and foisted fists and drinks in the air, cheering and hugging and snapping group photos to commemorate the night.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2023

That a tied-for-10th finish felt like a massive disappointment says plenty about the expectations being foisted on a player already up to 80th in the world.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 23, 2023

Every mistake made was magnified, every failure of the team foisted upon him, and the drum beat for coach Eli Drinkwitz to turn to highly touted recruit Sam Horn grew.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 17, 2023

Since “independence” was foisted on the Transkei, the tens of thousands of Xhosas living in Crossroads were to be stripped of their South African citizenship and deported to the tribal reserve.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

Others warn that foisting another unelected leader on the country might backfire.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 15, 2024

The auto industry plans to keep foisting ever-larger vehicles on the American public.

From Slate ● Dec. 17, 2023

Prior to foisting this mental damage onto a fictional character, Brodesser-Akner's experience delivering her first son was similar to that of her character's.

From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2023

You’ve inherited some strange, awkward problems that your colleagues clearly didn’t want to deal with and are foisting on you.

From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2022

After a breakfast of fatback and grits with lots of butter—Cook foisting a second helping onto Ophie despite her protests—Ophie was sent to take Mrs. Caruthers her morning tray.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland