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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
finagle .
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Examples
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But the question of how much he finagled from the treasury while doing it is a very good one.
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But the question of how much he finagled from the treasury while doing it is a very good one.
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But the question of how much he finagled from the treasury while doing it is a very good one.
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But the question of how much he finagled from the treasury while doing it is a very good one.
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But the question of how much he finagled from the treasury while doing it is a very good one.
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Imagine yourself taking the governorship of Virginia when you had tied in the vote with your opponent, when every ballot had been bitterly contested, and when roughly half the state might have thought that you had kind of finagled your way into office.
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She and her husband had also finagled tickets to Saturday's candidates' debate.
Late Deciders Are Taking Their Sweet Time Elizabeth Williamson 2012
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Realizing that he was in well over his head, Alwan faked an ankle injury and finagled his way out of the camp.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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Early in our research, we finagled a lunch with the CIA case officer known as Mad Dog.
Fallout Catherine Collins 2011
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That tax break became an issue in the race for speaker, with some lawmakers arguing that it was ridiculous to claim you were making a clean break from the scandals of Richardson if you then turned around and replaced him with someone who finagled a lucrative tax deal for a powerful client.
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