finesse

For a tennis player, that wrist is everything: power, control, finesse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

A hodgepodge of live cuts, outtakes, British LP tracks and singles, this album shows the Stones rapidly gaining confidence and playing with equal parts finesse and fire.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

When my body said to fling, I really needed to flick; when I used force, I really needed finesse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

But what he might lack in rhetorical finesse, he more than has in job experience, as least as defined by Trump.

From Salon ● Apr. 9, 2026

I was blown away by their finesse; they could take the tip of their blade and hit their target with such precision.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad

After some no doubt supersubtle finesses and pivots on both sides, Black seems to have achieved his goal on 30.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 14, 2023

Soft and supple, it finesses the line between elegance and heft.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2021

Grant attempts two tricky maneuvers with “Harpoon” and, for the most part, finesses them both.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2019

He suggested that the public had seized too narrowly on the times he deploys, say, the King Cobra Driver, rather than the moments he finesses a Titleist putter.

From New York Times ● Sep. 5, 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

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

Over the years, the honed and finessed those skills.

From BBC ● May 22, 2025

While Cooper scraped together the tiny budget from his own money, with help from family, and finessed Levy’s cooperation, Burke promised him they could shoot the film in a week.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2025

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

They’ve tested concepts on stage that haven’t worked; sometimes comedians themselves have realized their act needs more finessing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2025

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

The cannon and the musket were already in use; and it only required one blast of gunpowder to turn the sham-fight of courtly, traitorous, finessing captains of adventure into something terribly more real.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series by Horatio Robert Forbes Brown