finesse
Example Sentences
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Whatever the risks of his speechifying, you had to admire — here in our age of political infotainment — the natural finesse with which Springsteen threaded his prepared rhetoric into Tuesday’s set.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026
In their briefings, government lawyers finesse a sanitized version into a clean narrative of law-abiding responsibility.
From Slate • Feb. 18, 2026
Now Paul Weiss has an Epstein issue to finesse.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026
Winter salads demand a little more finesse than their warm-weather counterparts, but the effort is worth it.
From Salon • Dec. 16, 2025
“So I try to finesse it off and I’m sitting there drinking a bottle of WonderAde, okay?”
From "145th Street: Short Stories" by Walter Dean Myers
Vocabulary lists containing finesse
Trumps
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