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She said the Home Office had "foisted the centre on to local residents without consultation."

From BBC • May 10, 2022

I was also angry at myself; my job required me to grapple with a problem with no obvious solution and, out of weakness, I had foisted my confusion on him.

From New York Times • Jul. 2, 2020

It also deleted some of Jefferson’s more fanciful complaints, including his claim that the king had foisted the slave trade on innocent Americans, only to incite the slaves against their masters.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

The many early settlers who were religious dissenters were doubly suspicious of government, first for its centralizing efforts and second for the persecution it had foisted upon them.

From The Guardian • Sep. 8, 2016

In 1851 a Vigilance Committee had endeavored to purge the politics of the town and rid it of the criminals who had foisted themselves into office.

From In the Footprints of the Padres by Stoddard, Charles Warren