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pass off

verb as in give because one does not want it

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He added the vote passed off "without major incidents".

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"Voting passed off calmly," an official from the national electoral authority, Jean-Alain Andzongo, told AFP, at a voting station in the capital Yaounde.

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And when her debut collection got remarkably good press, she was accused of passing off her mentor Roland Mouret’s designs as her own.

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After the first few weeks, she started to develop headaches, which she passed off as stress.

She pointed out that it was “silly” that a 30-year-old man was trying pass off yelling at teenagers as “debate.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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