finesse
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It snatches at our attention with no more finesse than a losing fighter fumbling for a weapon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
For a tennis player, that wrist is everything: power, control, finesse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Against Cape Verde, Spain lacked finesse in their passing.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
But what he might lack in rhetorical finesse, he more than has in job experience, as least as defined by Trump.
From Salon ● Apr. 9, 2026
With the finesse of a mortician, 1 would lead mourners to the grave.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
Soft and supple, it finesses the line between elegance and heft.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2021
Black bass are good on spinners, crankbaits, and green pumpkin finesses plastic worms in 12-18’ fishing deeper docks, main lake points with near timber, drop-offs, and points.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 4, 2020
Grant attempts two tricky maneuvers with “Harpoon” and, for the most part, finesses them both.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2019
After two diamond finesses, declarer’s diamond ace dropped East’s king.
From New York Times ● Aug. 15, 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
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
In bright, airy studios in London and Malibu, they finessed what would become Lipa’s most ambitious — and euphoric-sounding — record to date.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 30, 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
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
So it’s a pleasure to report that actor-turned-filmmaker Matthew Shear, with his debut feature “Fantasy Life,” shows a facility for finessing a meal that lands the last bite.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026
With enough time and imagination, kickers and equipment managers are capable of finessing footballs in ways that make them soar.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025
However, the committee said it welcomed the break away from aligning the minimum wage with the living wage, and recommended "further finessing of the policy application to further help business, and support jobs".
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2025
It was like finessing an eight-spot and winning out.
From The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart
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