Example Sentences
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This is a title they have foisted upon themselves.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2025
Some Facebook users don’t like the chatbot, complaining in online forums that they’re tired of having AI foisted on them all the time or that they just want to stick with what they know.
From Seattle Times ● May 30, 2024
“Nearly every great performance is a well-executed con, an elaborate scheme skillfully foisted on the audience,” Chang wrote in 2020.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 26, 2023
Every mistake made was magnified, every failure of the team foisted upon him, and the drum beat for coach Eli Drinkwitz to turn to highly touted recruit Sam Horn grew.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 17, 2023
Since “independence” was foisted on the Transkei, the tens of thousands of Xhosas living in Crossroads were to be stripped of their South African citizenship and deported to the tribal reserve.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
