finagle
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And if he was moving across the Atlantic, he figured he might as well finagle his way onto one of the country’s televised quiz shows.
From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2024
Premium cabins typically aren’t cheap if you’re paying a cash fare, but you might be able to finagle your way to an upgrade.
From Seattle Times ● May 25, 2022
If she used some of his vast fortune to fund her music career and finagle a starring role on Broadway, so what?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2021
Foster and her fiance, meanwhile, may sacrifice the “feel of a wedding” to finagle room for more guests by taking advantage of looser restaurant regulations that allow for more people indoors.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 20, 2021
“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 "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
I don’t know how these guys finagled that.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 2025
He had finagled some blank report cards and used them to bring home self-inserted high marks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 23, 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
He picked up gigs in the jazz clubs of Greenwich Village, finagled a room at the Metropole Hotel in Times Square and met Mr. Rich and Mr. Krupa, who both took him under their wing.
From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 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
Hummel is one of the few who relish diagnosing their problems, taking them apart and finagling them in and out of trucks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026
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 ● Sep. 5, 2024
And, as the rookies sign, the Seahawks will have to do some finagling to get cap compliant.
From Seattle Times ● May 3, 2024
It took some finagling to get on the lists—the spots were reserved for clients, customers, and dealers willing to fork over their contact info and sit through a sales pitch—but I had a dealer’s credential.
From Slate ● May 30, 2023
After finagling ourselves out of a visit to the principal’s office, we limped home.
From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman
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