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
Happiness with your choice is most evident when you’re not trying to foist it onto someone else or make the choices of others into a weird crusade.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2024
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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