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Finagle
Finagle meaning
To obtain, arrange, or achieve by indirect, complicated and/or intensive efforts. | To obtain, arrange, or achieve by deceitful methods, by trickery. | To cheat or swindle; to use crafty, deceitful methods. (often with "out of" preceding the object)
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Example sentences (9)
This will be a high-density residential development allowed by a zoning finagle when Brightwater was developed years ago.
The NFL’s experience with COVID-19 unfolded, as one source explained it to PFT late Saturday, like an average golfer who somehow managed to finagle a par on each of he first three holes of the course.
But bringing in a star like Leonard could be the injection they need to finagle their way back into the Eastern Conference conversation, which is now dominated by the Celtics and 76ers.
Fontana that while he loved being Greg, he accepted commitments during the second season of the show’s filming time, that he couldn’t finagle out of.
To the frustration of some other AL contenders, the Indians were able to finagle a trade for star third baseman Josh Donaldson just before the August waiver period expired.
Also known as Finagle's variable constant, it is sometimes defined as the right answer divided by your answer.
A related concept, the "Finagle factor", is an ad hoc multiplicative or additive term in an equation which can only be justified by the fact that it gives more correct results.
By chance, he runs into an apologetic Sam. With Max's money, Sam is able to finagle them a one way job/trip aboard a starship using forged papers.
Variants One variant (known as O'Toole's Corollary of Finagle's Law) favored among hackers is a takeoff on the second law of thermodynamics (related to the augmentation of entropy ): The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum.