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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