foist
Example Sentences
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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
“I don’t want to lose a potential treatment for ALS, but I also don’t want to foist on the public an expensive treatment that doesn’t work,” said Dr. Terry Heiman-Patterson of Temple University.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 25, 2023
His ego is so big and so fragile that he forced the Twitter staff to rewrite the algorithm to foist his non-entertaining tweets into people's feeds.
From Salon • Mar. 14, 2023
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
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Henry David Thoreau "Civil Disobedience" (1849)
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