Example Sentences

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You’ve inherited some strange, awkward problems that your colleagues clearly didn’t want to deal with and are foisting on you.

From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2022

Lately accusations have mounted that VCA and Banfield are foisting unnecessary treatments on animals.

From Economist • Feb. 2, 2017

She goes after Boomer parents who, she believes, are foisting onto their children their own neuroses about getting old.

From Salon • Mar. 1, 2014

In fact, this loss of biodiversity may be the single largest environmental change we humans are foisting on our home planet, outpacing even climate change.

From Scientific American • Jun. 6, 2012