finagle

• “He could always finagle his way out of the tightest corners.”

  Simon & Schuster: Earl of Durkness

• “Nick Clegg and the Foreign Office, helped by sympathetic, economically liberal member states, may somehow finagle Britain back into the game.”

  The Guardian: Cameron and co are deluded – it's cold on Europe's margins | Timothy Garton Ash

• “Meanwhile for us tourists, our savvy Egyptian guides finagle a police escort that evening across the bridge, and we walk the rest of the way to the haven of our Western hotel.”

  The Huffington Post: Suzanne Skees: Egypt Exploded: An American in Cairo Ponders What Our Citizens Can Do for Theirs

• “As it turns out, I had to jump on the bus today with a large piece of iron work because it wouldn't fit in our car no matter how I tried to finagle it.”

  Chapala/Ajijic/Jocotepec Bus questions

• “She said she intends to maintain her 6 a.m.-to-6 p.m. vigil for at least three weeks of the trial's expected five-week duration—and perhaps longer if she can finagle more vacation time from the electronics firm where she works as a marketing assistant.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Outside Trial, the Show Must Go On

• “He managed to finagle quite a few beers out of the flight attendants, and the stories got better as the flight progressed.”

  Heroes or Villains?

• “Some consumers say they can finagle long-term extensions of special promotional rates used to attract new subscribers that normally expire after a year or two.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Customers Say to Cable Firms, 'Let's Make a Deal'

• “It's probably best to finagle a friendship with a magician so you can forgo the food.”

  The Huffington Post: Laurenne Sala: The Magic Castle: Ex-Nerds With Birds

• “She was tightly scripted to finagle all the fabrications closer to believability and still she turned it into word salad.”

  Think Progress » Sarah Palin admits to questioning whether Saddam was behind 9/11.

• “Obama is a vastly superior campaigner than anyone remotely associated with the Republican leadership – which is why his decision to do health care quietly and avoid confrontation in order to finagle votes was so frustrating from a partisan political perspective.”

  Matthew Yglesias » The Political Virtue of Lying and Determination

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