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- verb Present participle of
finagle . - noun the act of
cheating orswindling
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Examples
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She swapped cars with her daughter after numerous phone calls finagling the daughter a ride and finally made it in, late and angry.
Archive 2007-11-01 1 Dinosaur 2007
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She swapped cars with her daughter after numerous phone calls finagling the daughter a ride and finally made it in, late and angry.
When Dumb Men do Smart Things 1 Dinosaur 2007
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This explains the "finagling" I referred to that had to be done, in order to make the words fit.
Yikes! Wrong Song on Thursday Belinda 2009
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On the one hand, they can allow the election to proceed with minimal "finagling," in which case they are almost certain to lose the House and possibly the Senate as well, with the dire consequences noted above.
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The mainstream media, owned by the same corporations that have made their billions in financial finagling of the tax code, loves to ridicule and marginalize our movement.
Carl Gibson: Occupy The Dinner Conversation This Christmas Carl Gibson 2011
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This can mean a corporation finagling mineral rights on public lands for almost nothing or taking control of essential public services to make money rather than serve the greater social good.
Jay Walljasper: Twelve Reasons You'll Hear More About the Commons in 2012 Jay Walljasper 2012
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The installation took a bit of creative finagling.
The Makings of a Perfect Seattle Commuter Bike « PubliCola 2010
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He always seems to be finagling, playing the angles in some higher game that only he gets.
Out of the Way, Please, Mr. President Peggy Noonan 2011
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Regarding regulatory czar Cass Sunstein's Aug. 23 op-ed, "Washington Is Eliminating Red Tape" : The savings outlined by Mr. Sunstein don't even represent one-quarter of 1% of total private-sector compliance costs—and that assumes that the savings are realized and not just bureaucratic finagling for political purposes.
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The mainstream media, owned by the same corporations that have made their billions in financial finagling of the tax code, loves to ridicule and marginalize our movement.
Carl Gibson: Occupy The Dinner Conversation This Christmas Carl Gibson 2011
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