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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

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

Sister network Bravo foists “Housewives of Wherever” on NBC’s “Today” with synergistic zeal, but the best bang “Lockup” has ever received was a segment on “Oprah,” not in the NBC family.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2011

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

And, “Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz are the two worst things Oprah ever foisted on the public.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

Where the house maintains its edge is in the two additional numbers foisted upon the roulette wheel, a single zero and a double zero, both painted green.

From Slate ● Nov. 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

It’s hard to imagine a bigger buzzkill than the Seahawks foisted upon their fans in a 30-13 defeat at Lumen Field that evolved into total capitulation after a somewhat promising start.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 10, 2023

It was being foisted on him, and that he resented.

From "Abel's Island" by William Steig

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