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Still they forgot things, like a $600 spare key fob for Frank’s truck.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026

"We get tons of people inquiring about stories, and normally we kind of fob them off a bit," he said.

From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026

The shock came days later when he took the car to a local Kia dealership to ask about a faulty button on the key fob designed to access the boot.

From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2025

The bag or box is made out of conductive metal mesh that blocks the electromagnetic signals that emit from the key fob, according to AAA.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2025

He also wore a fob watch and a chain.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

"They're in all modern cell phones, key fobs, garage door openers, most GPS receivers, many radar systems and more."

From Science Daily ● Jan. 17, 2026

Hikers carry fobs and must scan in at four checkpoints 7 miles apart and depart by a certain time or quit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2025

The watchdog identified an "inflexible and indiscriminate" approach to the use of key fobs to control access to internal doors and gates, regardless of whether service users had capacity.

From BBC ● May 15, 2025

Auto technology has evolved and many newer cars use wireless key fobs and push-button starters instead of traditional metal keys.

From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2024

Most gang members in the Barrel loved flash: gaudy waistcoats, watch fobs studded with false gems, trousers in every print and pattern imaginable.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

Zara Dedman, 38, from Kent, says being "fobbed off" by doctors has had a huge impact on her mental health.

From BBC ● May 20, 2026

It heard he should have been identified as a threat and action taken sooner after he was reported as suspicious by a member of the public, who was "fobbed off".

From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2025

She said she felt "fobbed off" when she told doctors about her constipation and rectal bleeding.

From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2024

The victims commissioner for England and Wales said she often hears of victims being "ignored or fobbed off" by police forces.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2024

She fobbed me off with a half-promise in the end; but I wasn't satisfied.

From Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel by Louis Joseph Vance

"I feel that they're fobbing me off really. I've reported this crime. It is the police's job to investigate it," she said.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2025

They’re asking that HHS deal directly with their case instead of fobbing it off to the NIH, which would bring it under the purview of HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2023

A major challenge will be keeping researchers from simply treating the requirement as another box to tick or fobbing the work off on minority scientists, Hodari says.

From Science Magazine ● Oct. 4, 2022

“You can’t play those parts by just looking at them and fobbing them off,” he said.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 13, 2019

And so saying, under sufferance of being small, the plenipo was permitted to depart unmolested; for all his bravadoes, fobbing his credentials and affronts.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Herman Melville