as in victory
an instance of defeating an enemy or opponent
the judges' decision was unanimous: the palm would go to the pianist who had played an early piece by Chopin
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as in to wish
to offer (something fake, useless, or inferior) as genuine, useful, or valuable
another low-rent company trying to palm cheesy merchandise upon mail-order customers
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Recent Examples of palm
Jenny McCoy, SELF, 23 Oct. 2024
Lower yourself until roughly parallel with the ground, and press through your palms to straighten your elbows and lift your body back to the starting position.
—Jakob Roze, Health, 22 Oct. 2024
Chris Yogerst, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Mar. 2024
The woman had pushed aside her scarf and unbuttoned her coat so that my mother could place her hand, palm down, directly onto her dress.
—Sanaë Lemoine, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
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Noun
Keeping your elbows at your side, rotate your palms away from your trunk as far as comfortably possible.
—Jenny McCoy, SELF, 23 Oct. 2024
Lower yourself until roughly parallel with the ground, and press through your palms to straighten your elbows and lift your body back to the starting position.
—Jakob Roze, Health, 22 Oct. 2024
Verb
At least that’s what Hal Wallis may have told you after the 1944 Academy Awards when Jack Warner accepted the Casablanca Oscar that some felt should have been palmed by Wallis, the Warner Bros. film’s producer.
—Chris Yogerst, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Mar. 2024
The woman had pushed aside her scarf and unbuttoned her coat so that my mother could place her hand, palm down, directly onto her dress.
—Sanaë Lemoine, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
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That was good for a 1.5 second victory, and also automatic All-American honors.Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 17 Nov. 2024
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Next week: Mountain Vista vs. Fairview, TBA No. 7 Fairview beat No. 10 Chatfield, 42-15: Sophomore QB Ki Ellison threw three touchdown passes and ran for another, and Fairview (11-0) claimed its first playoff victory in five years to stay unbeaten on the season.Matt Schubert, The Denver Post, 17 Nov. 2024
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Any president would wish for that kind of coverage going into an election; the Democrats are hoping Vice President Kamala Harris, Biden’s successor, can take it and run with it.Chris Morris, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2024
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These farm country voters wish presidential candidates paid them more attention.Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2024
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But a win is a win, and the Niners aren’t in a position to turn any of them down.Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
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The Cyclones’ second straight loss came against a Kansas team that entered with two wins.Eric Olson, The Denver Post, 10 Nov. 2024
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The Arizona Republic, part of the USA TODAY Network, traveled to the Klamath last year for a series of stories about the damage inflicted by the dams and the work to restore wildlife habitat and ancestral homelands.Debra Utacia Krol, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2024
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Even in its only domestic defeat of the season - a 4-2 loss to Osasuna - Barca got on the scoresheet twice, and there have been goal-heavy thrashings inflicted on the likes of Valladolid (7-0), Girona (1-4), Villarreal (1-5), Alaves (0-3), Sevilla (5-1), Real Madrid (0-4) and now Espanyol (3-1).Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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The first-seven-minutes clip though shows some entirely different characters and a man’s desperate attempt to try to pass off the demons pursuing him.Brian Welk, IndieWire, 4 Nov. 2024
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Prescott has been wildly inconsistent tonight but threw the perfect pass off his back foot to find Tolbert on a crossing route.Andrew Greif, NBC News, 7 Oct. 2024
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Arriving via the gorgeous gardens of Grosvenor Square, my partner and I oohed and aahed at the imposing marble, opulent chandeliers and old-world glamour of the hotel lobby.Caroline Dolby, theweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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China has railed against tariffs on its electric vehicles imposed by the EU and Washington among others.Chris Morris, Fortune Asia, 5 Nov. 2024
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And there’s an art to delegating, without seemingly palming off work to your team.Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2023
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Giannoli’s narrator lays out press performance in Balzacian details that sound absolutely contemporary: News, debate, and ideas had become goods to palm off on subscribers.Armond White, National Review, 10 June 2022
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“Palm.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/palm. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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