Example Sentences
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Berkshire does own about $60 billion of Apple stock, but that issue likely could be finessed to get Cook.
From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 2026
But Rutte appears to have finessed an issue that had threatened to shatter the north Atlantic alliance.
From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2026
Many California hotels have finessed the issue by restricting children’s access without banning them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2025
It’s a mammalian innovation, honed and finessed in the latter stages of the Mesozoic era, the so-called Age of Reptiles.
From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2024
UC Berkeley’s medical school would not get over its disdain for John’s studies for years, until the situation was finessed by the creation of a separate laboratory for radiation science in 1942.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
