[ US /ˈfɪnəɡəɫ, fɪˈneɪɡəɫ/ ]
[ UK /fɪnˈe‍ɪɡə‍l/ ]
VERB
  1. achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods
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How To Use finagle In A Sentence

  • By 1985 Heimlich had used his considerable celebrity from developing the Heimlich maneuver for choking to finagle a seat on the American Heart Association's Special Situations Committee.
  • It doesn't take a genius to spot the teams that will finagle to get him.
  • Two days before the April draft, Donovan finagled her second critical move.
  • How he finagled four front row seats to the game I'll never know.
  • Indeed, she complained so much that she was able to finagle the chairmanship (sorry, the chairpersonship) of a committee tasked with finding discrimination at MIT.
  • Considering the Cowboys still have some money to spend - and own two No. 1 picks - the offseason should get better and better as they try to finagle to get back into the playoffs.
  • It'll be up to me to finagle a new pair out of my dad's checkbook by the time Prom rolls around.
  • Large businesses don't care so much about regulation - medium-large ones can eat the cost, supersized ones can finagle the regs so that the rules actually favor them - but small-timers have neither money nor pull.
  • Well somehow we were able to finagle our way out of it and I won the game with double three.
  • That tax break became an issue in the race for speaker, with some lawmakers arguing that it was ridiculous to claim you were making a clean break from the scandals of Richardson if you then turned around and replaced him with someone who finagled a lucrative tax deal for a powerful client. The scandals never stop - poli
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