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as in negotiates
to plan out usually with subtle skill or care
had to finesse the schedule a bit to fit in another patient that afternoon
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as in avoids
to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery
tried to finesse the blame for the foreign policy fiasco, even though he was secretary of state at the time
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Jonas negotiates the coffee and doughnut freebie in a fun video posted on Instagram and TikTok.—
Mike Snider,
USA Today,
24 Sep. 2025 -
Faulí now runs a team of eleven architects, and also negotiates the politics of a project that has numerous stakeholders.—
D. T. Max,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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Airlearn avoids that pitfall by leading each lesson into conversational practice, combining grammar, pronunciation, and context to bridge the gap from recognition to use.—
Connie Etemadi,
USA Today,
24 Sep. 2025
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But now at 3-1 on the season, Michigan, who avoids playing both Penn State and Oregon in the regular season, may be able to use it as a jumping-off point to a playoff berth.—
Christian Romo,
Freep.com,
22 Sep. 2025
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Big Tech now engineers a perpetual state of insecurity by creating relentless technological churn, rendering our skills and safety measures obsolete, only to then sell us the tools to catch up.—
Vivian Toh,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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The study, conducted over several years, uses an approach that engineers artificial proteins (referred to as ion channels) in the brain that are activated by and bound to cocaine.—
Noah Lyons,
Mercury News,
5 Sep. 2025
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Oh plays Eve, a deskbound MI-5 agent who longs to be a spy in the field, a dream that is soon realized when a mutual obsession develops between her and a sadistic, sociopathic assassin (Jodie Comer) who always evades capture.—
Vulture Editors,
Vulture,
24 Sep. 2025
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With the help of resourceful Marie Kreutz (Franka Potente), Bourne evades capture from the CIA — namely data analyst Nicky Parsons (Julia Stiles) and Deputy Director Ward Abbott (Brian Cox) — while untangling his involvement in the deadly Operation Treadstone.—
Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
13 Sep. 2025
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The algorithm manipulates users, but primarily with the goal of keeping them on the platform and seeing more advertisements.—
David Karpf,
The Atlantic,
24 Sep. 2025
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The patch was created by combining nanophotonics technology, which manipulates light at the nanometer scale (one-hundred-thousandth the thickness of a human hair) to read molecular properties, with microfluidics technology, which precisely controls sweat in channels thinner than a hair.—
Hannah Millington,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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Jesan escapes from defeat by kidnapping Ji-yeon and requesting Heon meet him alone.—
Kayti Burt,
Time,
29 Sep. 2025
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Continue reading … ON THE RUN – Fear grips major US city as accused teen killer escapes in jail error.—
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FOXNews.com,
26 Sep. 2025
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But after the app arranges the list, parents are still responsible for completing it.—
Miranda Rake,
The Atlantic,
23 Sep. 2025
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The Chronological Border arranges the beds in chronological order from the 16th to the 20th century.—
Jeanine Barone,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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LaBeouf plays a character named Clodio Pulcher, who plots against Cesar.—
Tommy McArdle,
PEOPLE,
16 Sep. 2025
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Loktev’s film chronicles the Russian government’s systematic crackdown on journalists in late 2021 and early 2022 as Vladimir Putin plots his invasion of Ukraine.—
Tim Grierson,
Rolling Stone,
13 Aug. 2025
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“Finesses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/finesses. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
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