finesse
noun
extreme delicacy or subtlety in action, performance, skill, discrimination, taste, etc.
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
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Though Hubby Frank will finesse the trip, Mia will be accompanied by her sister Prudence, 19, who plans to establish an academy of transcendental meditation in Boston when the girls get back.
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