finagle
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Financial firms are under attack by hackers using voice phishing to finagle sensitive data from employees, according to new research from Google’s threat-intelligence group.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Indeed, the internet is full of DIY hackers explaining how to finagle a frunk unofficially.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 7, 2022
Francisco-Juan claimed to be the 10-year-old’s father and had managed to finagle her mother into putting his name on her birth certificate, manufacturing bogus proof of the relationship.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 21, 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
Since my dayee Mehrdad lived in the coveted and ritzy Saratoga neighborhood within Lynbrook's district, we used his address to finagle our way into the school.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
“Somehow, he had finagled the thing from the military.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
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
Crimmins finagled an introduction to a congressperson who was able to help him expedite the Agriculture Department approval process to get the frog into the country.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 30, 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
While the film takes a clever yet light bit of finagling to find online, it’s worth the search: “A Diva’s Christmas Carol” is a life-altering, life-affirming event movie to rival even the best Dickens alteration.
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2025
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
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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