pass off

Example Sentences

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Just down the street from the shipyard, Groton resident Autumn Gardiner rents an apartment that she’d love to pass off to a new Electric Boat employee after she buys a home.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026

The majority of students — 80% — say they would not use AI to submit classwork to pass off as their own.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

Here is a selection of winners from recent years that you can pass off as your own in the pub later on:

From BBC • Jul. 22, 2025

In Monday’s interview, he tried to pass off this turnabout as obvious, as if he had believed it all along.

From Slate • Nov. 12, 2024

Townsfolk regularly tried to pass off halfdead or gingered up nags to us, knowing that by the time we discovered our mistakes we’d be miles and days away.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss