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The car has its enjoyable quirks: The hatch glass opens up with the press of a key fob button.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026

The doors typically don’t unlock when I approach the car until I pull out the key fob and hit the unlock button.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 20, 2025

Ms Mannings reflected on how people often ask "are you OK?" - but it's a vague question, easy to "fob off".

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2025

Mr Heathcote agreed with the assessment, suggesting that a radio signal from a phone or car fob may have been the trigger.

From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2024

Once upon a time there was a girl who had memories that fob lowed her like shadows.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

"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

Experts suggest keeping key fobs near the center of the home so the signal is harder to pick up.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2025

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

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

It’s then that I remember the email that said we’d need our key fobs to access the pool if we wanted to swim before eight a.m. on weekdays.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

He said he felt "fobbed off" when he complained to the cruise director.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

A woman says she was "fobbed off by the NHS" and "adenomyosis ruined my life".

From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2026

Some feel "fobbed off" that concerns over side effects are not taken seriously and are also fed up of bearing the "contraceptive burden", says Hall.

From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2026

"We're just getting fobbed off. The evidence is all there," she said.

From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2025

But I feel that the writer who was perhaps the greatest essayist that England has ever produced must not in these letters be fobbed off with so slight a notice and quotation.

From The Glory of English Prose Letters to My Grandson by Stephen Coleridge

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

"This has been going on for 20 years, at least 20 years, and the council have been fobbing us off time and time again," said the 77-year-old.

From BBC ● Jan. 19, 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

At the time it seemed to me that he was bent on fobbing me off.

From The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason