finesse
Example Sentences
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The mayor said he has played pickup basketball at city courts, including at Brooklyn Bridge Park, but acknowledges his style lacks finesse.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026
But what he might lack in rhetorical finesse, he more than has in job experience, as least as defined by Trump.
From Salon • Apr. 9, 2026
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
We've picked power hitters in finesse type conditions.
From BBC • Feb. 18, 2026
In 1768, the Berlin embryologist Caspar Wolff tried to finesse an answer by concocting a guiding principle—vis essentialis corporis, as he called it—that progressively shepherded the maturation of a fertilized egg into a human form.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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