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In that scenario, Sheinbaum could essentially be washing her hands of the decision and foist it on the ministries.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026

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

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

“Rising Phoenix” is bursting with a glossy visual style courtesy of director of photography Will Pugh, casting the athletes as gods whose speed, strength and finesse shatter preconceptions the world sometimes foists upon them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2020

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

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

For decades, outsiders have foisted their foreign music upon us at the Super Bowl between commercials for Doritos and Budweiser.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2026

This is a title they have foisted upon themselves.

From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2025

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

The raid brought international attention to the newspaper and the small town of 1,900 — foisted to the center of a debate over press freedoms.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 19, 2023

He’d foisted her off with “How would that look? M.D., M.D. If you were sick, would you go see a man called Dr. Dead?”

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison

We are in a time of tech giants foisting updates on a public that hasn’t asked for them.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2025

“The city pressed private property into public service, foisting the cost of its coronavirus response onto housing providers.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2025

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