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
But this is a delicate business, and the administration tempts chaos unless it learns to exercise its power with a lot more finesse.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
In their briefings, government lawyers finesse a sanitized version into a clean narrative of law-abiding responsibility.
From Slate • Feb. 18, 2026
But he mixed brutal hitting with plenty of finesse too, guiding 15 runs down to third with some deft late cuts.
From BBC • Feb. 16, 2026
People tried to defy orders and merge themselves into the functional lines, but without any of the finesse that I would have brought to the endeavor.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
Vocabulary lists containing finesse
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