finesse

Jackson is a quiet star who doesn’t deploy a gossipy agent to finesse reporters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

Elsewhere, both dancers performing as the prankish Puck nearly stole their respective shows, as boldly athletic Jake Roxander and high-flying and hovering Takumi Miyake bolted and breezed about their forest setting with fairyland finesse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

Muharemovic is aerially dominant in both boxes, while there is a finesse to his technical skills, too, as shown by a backheeled assist to Dominic Calvert-Lewin for a goal against Newcastle.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

Much work remains to be done to finesse the conclusions, and a paper outlining the results is yet to be published in a peer-reviewed journal.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

He had more finesse to his moves, but she had the advantage of speed.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

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

At one table, Kit Woolsey of Kensington, Calif., a three-time world champion, took two diamond finesses.

From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 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

He suffers from the two facts that he achieved unique fame for the surgery named for him and he didn’t strike out hitters, he finessed them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026

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

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

Your idea is pretty special, but perhaps needs a little finessing.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026

And there are some feelings about this show’s return that no amount of script finessing can alter.

From Salon ● Sep. 10, 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

It was like finessing an eight-spot and winning out.

From The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart