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
Precious about his loss, yet glib about other people’s, he has the charismatic narcissist’s ability to finagle subservience.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2023
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
“I hated being a lawyer. My parents worked as brokers at Oppenheimer securities. They managed to finagle me a job. It’s not pretty but that’s what happened.”
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
I don’t know how these guys finagled that.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 2025
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
But those blowouts in San Francisco validated just how impressive it is that the Nuggets, without a true, contender-worthy second or third scoring option, finagled a 48-34 record this season using Jokic and mirrors.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 2022
Well, that combined with their kindness/goodness/purity of heart and garnished with my certitude that this glorious triad I somehow finagled my way into is definitely, definitely temporary.
From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone
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
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
And, as the rookies sign, the Seahawks will have to do some finagling to get cap compliant.
From Seattle Times ● May 3, 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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