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  • verb Present participle of fob.

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Examples

  • Maybe the Greeks and Romans had the right idea in fobbing that responsibility off onto an outside force.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • Maybe the Greeks and Romans had the right idea in fobbing that responsibility off onto an outside force.

    Genius in a Bottle Hal Duncan 2009

  • Why does Wall Street persist in fobbing off really low-intelligence candidates on us?

    Matthew Yglesias » Harold Ford Goes Negative . . . on Eleanor Roosevelt 2010

  • Today I recieved an email from Entellium, once again fobbing me off.

    Eating your own dog food « Squash 2006

  • Today I recieved an email from Entellium, once again fobbing me off.

    2006 November « Squash 2006

  • In Divinity of Doubt, Bugliosi rightly points out that the new atheists haven't done more than attack religion while fobbing those attacks off as somehow proving this or that about the existence or lack of existence of God.

    Frank Schaeffer: Divinity of Doubt Frank Schaeffer 2011

  • In Divinity of Doubt, Bugliosi rightly points out that the new atheists haven't done more than attack religion while fobbing those attacks off as somehow proving this or that about the existence or lack of existence of God.

    Frank Schaeffer: Divinity of Doubt Frank Schaeffer 2011

  • That's a great theory for fobbing off CDs of music people should be listening to anyway -- so I'm all for it!

    Demographics and Sacred Music 2009

  • In Divinity of Doubt, Bugliosi rightly points out that the new atheists haven't done more than attack religion while fobbing those attacks off as somehow proving this or that about the existence or lack of existence of God.

    Frank Schaeffer: Divinity of Doubt Frank Schaeffer 2011

  • In Divinity of Doubt, Bugliosi rightly points out that the new atheists haven't done more than attack religion while fobbing those attacks off as somehow proving this or that about the existence or lack of existence of God.

    Frank Schaeffer: Divinity of Doubt Frank Schaeffer 2011

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