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passed off

VERB
give because one does not want it
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A Kelvin wave earlier this month passed off the California coast.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

In Paris, where many shops had boarded up windows to prevent looting, and the Louvre and the Musee d'Orsay museums shut for the day, the main demonstration passed off largely peacefully.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026

That includes “Reacher,” the Prime Video thriller that’s basically a string of run-and-gun flicks passed off as episodic TV.

From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2026

Andrew Morrow, an attorney spearheading the litigation for the firm, said in court Thursday that the group has passed off about 500 of its 1,200 landfill clients to another personal injury firm.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

Without definitive documentary evidence of particular sources we may never know if this research included tribal melodies he later passed off as his own.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall


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