finagle
Example Sentences
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He had finagled some blank report cards and used them to bring home self-inserted high marks.
From Los Angeles Times
“I hated being a lawyer. My parents worked as brokers at Oppenheimer securities. They managed to finagle me a job. It’s not pretty but that’s what happened.”
From Literature
Later, he finagles a physical comedy beat in which Gemma is delighted to realize she’s more like M3GAN than she thinks.
From Los Angeles Times
But she has an ulterior motive in shrewdly finagling her way into a job at an esteemed Chicago law firm, which is revealed by the end of the hour and sets the season in motion.
From Los Angeles Times
He finagled it so that he ran the leg that passed right in front of his and my friend’s house on Monroe Drive.
From Salon
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