finagle
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I don’t know how these guys finagled that.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025
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 • Aug. 15, 2024
Los Angeles’ city officials and civic moguls finagled and schemed more than 110 years ago to bring its waters to Los Angeles — essentially sticking a 200-something-mile-long straw in the lake.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 25, 2023
He went to Oregon, San Francisco, and then Los Angeles, where the 18-year-old Jimmie Howe eventually finagled a job on the janitorial staff of Lasky Studios.
From New York Times • May 27, 2022
“Then I found out. Mother finagled the governor to appoint me to the Council of Defense. The draft board said that could be my service.”
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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