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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
foist .
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Examples
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Downton doesn't exclude his own acclaimed work from that same viciously fickle fashion cycle and is uncomfortable with the label foisted upon him: the world's greatest fashion illustrator.
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Downton doesn't exclude his own acclaimed work from that same viciously fickle fashion cycle and is uncomfortable with the label foisted upon him: the world's greatest fashion illustrator.
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P.D. says: ssc@66, I, too, am infurated that McCain foisted this ignorant woman upon us.
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It was a sad day when idiot John McCain foisted you off on the American people.
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Regardless of the labels foisted upon the blogs and news outlets outside of the mainstream, McClellan has now confirmed what these outlets already reported and he consistently and vehemently denied.
Did McClellan Pave the Way for a Renewed Call for Impeachment? 2008
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Why, even a Syrian like myself knows that if you had not got your name foisted into that old man's will, you would have been starving by this time, and all your books must have been put up to sale.
Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 of Samosata Lucian 1895
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The Inconvenient Truth for scientists so heavily invested in the alarmist GW theories currently being promulgated [perhaps even fraudulently foisted] is that it is becoming more and more evident that the Earth’s climate is beyond our present control.
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Although an agreement in principle exists, market observers still fear that it won't be enough to prevent bondholders from having new terms foisted on them in the form of a restructuring or default.
Euro Drops Below $1.44 Javier E. David 2011
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That was a name foisted on them later by the Spanish: it comes from Aztlan, the White Place (which the Aztecs listed as their place of origin and which you can find in hymns within Servant of the Underworld), but they never used it that way.
Archive 2010-01-01 Blue Tyson 2010
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Although an agreement in principle exists, market observers still fear that it won't be enough to prevent bondholders from having new terms foisted on them in the form of a restructuring or default.
Euro Drops Below $1.44 Javier E. David 2011
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"Alcide had had my company foisted on him." -Club Dead, by Charlaine Harris
February 5, 2011