finesse

Elsewhere, both dancers performing as the prankish Puck nearly stole their respective shows, as boldly athletic Jake Roxander and high-flying and hovering Takumi Miyake bolted and breezed about their forest setting with fairyland finesse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

Much work remains to be done to finesse the conclusions, and a paper outlining the results is yet to be published in a peer-reviewed journal.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

Employees practice responding to objections, then get real-time feedback on how to finesse their responses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

Against Cape Verde, Spain lacked finesse in their passing.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

She says I don’t look like I’m marching in step anymore so it’s much more natural AND she says that shows a lot of finesse.

From "Mockingbird" by Kathryn Erskine

After some no doubt supersubtle finesses and pivots on both sides, Black seems to have achieved his goal on 30.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 14, 2023

Soft and supple, it finesses the line between elegance and heft.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2021

Grant attempts two tricky maneuvers with “Harpoon” and, for the most part, finesses them both.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2019

The New-York Historical Society survey, organized by Roberta J. M. Olson, the society’s curator of drawings, pretty much finesses doubts about Audubon’s place in the big picture: He’s right in the middle and everywhere.

From New York Times ● Mar. 27, 2014

Hoagland would say that now was the time for playing certain finesses, that in the wake of the activity arose those moments that could be manipulated.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

He suffers from the two facts that he achieved unique fame for the surgery named for him and he didn’t strike out hitters, he finessed them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026

Berkshire does own about $60 billion of Apple stock, but that issue likely could be finessed to get Cook.

From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 2026

But Rutte appears to have finessed an issue that had threatened to shatter the north Atlantic alliance.

From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2026

It’s a mammalian innovation, honed and finessed in the latter stages of the Mesozoic era, the so-called Age of Reptiles.

From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2024

UC Berkeley’s medical school would not get over its disdain for John’s studies for years, until the situation was finessed by the creation of a separate laboratory for radiation science in 1942.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Economist Odhiambo Ramogi argues that the move to restrict foreign nationals from businesses is too broad - and could do with finessing.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

And there are some feelings about this show’s return that no amount of script finessing can alter.

From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2026

He won the bid on the basis of completing the project in three days but then spent three months finessing the terms of the contract before subcontracting the job.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026

They’ve tested concepts on stage that haven’t worked; sometimes comedians themselves have realized their act needs more finessing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2025

Much finessing is possible by engaging the enemy on one side of the ground, while a good runner is held in reserve to dash into the enemy's goal on the other side.

From Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium by Jessie Hubbell Bancroft