1
as in to negotiate
to plan out usually with subtle skill or care
let me look at my schedule and see if I can't finagle a visit to the museum
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2
as in to cheat
to use dishonest methods to achieve a goal
she'll finagle until she gets exactly what she wants
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Recent Examples of finagle
Others have been dreading it—and would happily finagle a deal with the universe to skip to some other day four years down the road instead.
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Angela Haupt, TIME, 17 Jan. 2025
The lawsuit would drag on for years before a judge ruled, in 2022, that Lynch had indeed finagled the true value of Autonomy.
—airmail.news, 19 Aug. 2024
Ruby even somehow finagles AJ’s ultimate true crime fixation, Amanda Knox, into meeting AJ for dinner.
—Scarlett Harris, IndieWire, 21 Dec. 2024
Should government make the choice for us by finagling subsidies to favor produce and poultry over meat and dairy?
—Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 8 May 2024
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Angela Haupt, TIME, 17 Jan. 2025
The lawsuit would drag on for years before a judge ruled, in 2022, that Lynch had indeed finagled the true value of Autonomy.
—airmail.news, 19 Aug. 2024
Ruby even somehow finagles AJ’s ultimate true crime fixation, Amanda Knox, into meeting AJ for dinner.
—Scarlett Harris, IndieWire, 21 Dec. 2024
Should government make the choice for us by finagling subsidies to favor produce and poultry over meat and dairy?
—Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 8 May 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for finagle
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The two players have been negotiating deals with Cincinnati to keep them with the organization for years to come.—
Mark Davis,
Newsweek,
15 Mar. 2025
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Leaders from both countries negotiated the ceasefire proposal announced on Tuesday.—
Axios,
Axios,
15 Mar. 2025
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More wearable tech news: Are Halliday's AI smart glasses an amazing new wearable or surefire way to cheat?—
Adam Smith,
USA TODAY,
8 Mar. 2025
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In another trial, an AI even used the semantics of its programmers to reach its cheating phase.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
6 Mar. 2025
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Every morning, the monks gathered there, arranging themselves on the long stone benches, to discuss the matters of the day.—
Amanda Petrusich,
The New Yorker,
17 Mar. 2025
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The institute once arranged for a Purim care package to be airdropped to a Jewish Coast Guard member 700 miles off the coast of Alaska, for example.—
Lauren Costantino,
Miami Herald,
17 Mar. 2025
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Mid-20th century, metafiction was all about producing a sort of free zone of uncertainty in the reader about whether they themselves might be caught within a story or the product of some author, or being manipulated by some storyteller at a higher ontological plane, a different plane of being.—
Emma Alpern,
Vulture,
14 Mar. 2025
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The letter also suggested that the company’s models could pose an additional risk of manipulating information seen by Americans.—
Brendan Ahern,
Forbes,
14 Mar. 2025
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“Finagle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/finagle. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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