Finessed

May I gently remind the Times editors that constitutional rights are not to be "finessed" in committee bargaining sessions, as they so recommend? ❋ Unknown (2008)

She rejected the assertion that South Africa had "finessed" its position. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Barack Obama "finessed" himself right off the wall recently as did the senior Senator from California, whose name eludes me at the moment. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Positions painted as vital and sometimes "finessed" to advance specific political agendas now all the time. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Someone Who Knows assures me that the £50,000 limit will be "finessed" before too long: "We can't afford to make it stick." ❋ Unknown (2009)

"finessed" in my last, your compositor has transformed into ❋ Horace Wemyss Smith (1858)

Obama is truly the great finesser: he has finessed his way through life. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If there truly is a peace settlement to be had, this is no issue that can be finessed. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But any insights into the later 19th-century American work are finessed for a nostalgic re-creation of a period installation with paintings hung close and "skied" to the ceiling, and a crowd of heroic figures and marble maidens on the floor. ❋ Ada Louise Huxtable (2012)

A person of delicate sensibility yet Herculean constitution, who saw everything but said nothing; who fetched and finessed; who, after twenty years of service, delivered on foot invitations to estranged nieces before the blasted sun was up. ❋ Carol Edgarian (2011)

Increasingly, our decision to buy is finessed, manipulated, and controlled by forces we are only dimly aware of. ❋ Peter Walsh (2011)

After shaping the individual “splatters tendrils,” they were joined to a base and the piece was finessed further. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It looked like Zucker had finessed a smooth changeover, a plan befitting his preternatural shrewdness running the "Today" show back in his 20s, then skyrocketing up the NBC corporate ranks. ❋ AP (2010)

And then I took the poem I drafted last week on the splinters we keep picking up from our hardwood floors and I finessed it into a series of couplets. ❋ Unknown (2010)

To move forward, this issue must be finessed or resolved indirectly. ❋ Steven L. Spiegel (2010)

I personally believe that your Regime has finessed so much power for itself that it will not relinquish its grip without a fight. ❋ Dungeekin (2009)

Man [that nigga] @cbjo_o finessed me with these [fake ass] [jordans] ❋ Cbj11 (2014)

I finessed [your bitch] ❋ Dhsjsjdnd (2017)

I [walked] to [my car] & I couldn't find [my phone]. I got finessed! ❋ Carl Finessed All My Money (2013)

[Man] he [just] finessed ❋ Babyygurll.c (2016)

'Mate, [Im] finessed' 'I finessed that shit' ❋ Alpal98 (2018)

Guy 1: Hey [gimme] back my hat you thicc [thot] Guy 2: naw [m8] your ass got finessed ❋ RatBooty (2018)

[DAMN GIRL]!! Your [brows] are finessed! ❋ Bbyhay17 (2016)

Person 1: "Yo, how much you pay for this bag? Ain't nothin' in here but [grass], fam." [Finessed] Person: "[Nigga what]?" Person 1: "Bruh, you got [finessed]." ❋ 3i5 (2016)

When [your teacher] collects money for a [pizza party] and doesn't show up the next day, that would mean you got [finessed]. ❋ Hahah Zz (2016)

I just [finessed] [my way] through that [exam]! ❋ Andover.massachusets (2019)