Verb (used with object) : He finagled the backers out of a fortune. ,to finagle an assignment to the Membership Committee.    From Dictionary.com. 

She swapped cars with her daughter after numerous phone calls finagling the daughter a ride and finally made it in, late and angry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-11-01] Reference

The installation took a bit of creative finagling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Makings of a Perfect Seattle Commuter Bike « PubliCola] Reference

Such finagling would be hard for the author to bear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Terrorists Shouldn't Profit From Their Crimes] Reference

Maybe that is too much finagling the pattern though.    From Wordnik.com.  [No such thing as too many chefs. « A Bird’s Nest] Reference

Took a little finagling, but I finally got it to work.    From Wordnik.com.  [misspinkkate Diary Entry] Reference

Pete asked Lenny if Boyd knew about all that finagling.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Tabloid]

But no, our leaders are not fiddling, they're finagling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ross M. Levine: Middle Class? You've Been Downlisted by the GOP] Reference

We define ourselves via fabulousness rather than finagling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pinch My Assets! Gayfolk Transcend Global Economic Scandal] Reference

Which makes Jim Baker's finagling over the debates so curious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bush: Praying For Rain] Reference

This finagling should help -- but it may not help a whole lot.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Ivies' Newfound Largess] Reference

Retreats and gives in to right-wing fear-mongering and finagling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Claudia Ricci: The Audacity of Obama] Reference

With a little finagling, we got it to fit over the old comforter.    From Wordnik.com.  [PrairieMod Monday] Reference

But with a bit of finagling, I was able to tie up the whole thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Turducken] Reference

Friday, 12/1/2006 - "Fresh fallout from McGee financial finagling".    From Wordnik.com.  [QuadTech: 6-Figure Contract-less Deal] Reference

This isn't about votes and boardroom finagling, it's about my mother's life!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Perseus Spur]

It is a quirk in U.S. immigration law that requires some finagling to access.    From Wordnik.com.  [U.S. Offers Refuge to Cubans, Even if They're Not From Cuba] Reference

Complicated regulations encourage super-complicated finagling to get around them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » The New Regime] Reference

He is a profoundly unhappy man, essentially torn apart by U.S. bureaucrats 'finagling.    From Wordnik.com.  [National disgrace] Reference

Strasburg's second Class AAA start may precede some finagling of his pitching schedule.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stephen Strasburg live blog, Syracuse edition, Vol. 2] Reference

Obama may just be keeping his powder dry until the critical finagling begins in earnest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chris Weigant: Obama and Bright Lines in the Sand] Reference

She can't commit an illegal act, like finagling with the money and the accounts at a bank.    From Wordnik.com.  [Murder Can Be Fun]

It matters not how much finagling they do to message the numbers, the cats out of the bag.    From Wordnik.com.  [UK Met office pushes reset button on CRU data. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState] Reference

Which should keep those realtors busy finagling the unsuspecting public for quite some time.    From Wordnik.com.  [National Association of Realtors Reports Uptick On Home Sales.....Really?] Reference

D.C., aside from some typographical (and sloganistic) finagling have looked similar since 1986.    From Wordnik.com.  [In praise of boring license plates] Reference

If you were finagling around with a married woman and you weren't, I might be more sympathetic!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sanford e-mail: I've 'crossed lines I never would have imagined'] Reference

The other crewleader, Theron, had spent five years building, scamming, and finagling to create this moment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mistborn] Reference

The new options-finagling accusation against Mr. Alexander involves a 1998 exercise of 675,000 stock options.    From Wordnik.com.  [Probe Finds Comverse Executives] Reference

Cross your fingers for Miss Fantastic over here, always finagling the next step to her utter success – check.    From Wordnik.com.  [Catching up on a Tuesday - Check] Reference

He had not expected any, but when you had an al-Akla and a Cado finagling on the occupier's side you took precautions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tower of Fear]

But the finagling is easier to spot here in New York, where shoppers frequent multiple locations within the same chain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Price-Point Politics] Reference

It was the finagling of a high official who thinks he can pull the levers and make it all work out and get Hanoi to negotiate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Promise and Power: The Life and Times of Robert McNamara] Reference

They're all finagling, fighting and using whatever kind of skullduggery to get a chunk of and eventual control of the oil wealth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dem Senators Weigh In On Blair's Plan To Withdraw From Iraq] Reference

It is an undisputable fact that imperialist ideology, propaganda, imperialist finagling, have not been able to penetrate anywhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [26 JULY CELEBRATION] Reference

I got into the event by making friends with a White House employee a couple of days earlier and finagling an "invitation" to the affair.    From Wordnik.com.  [It's My Party and I'll Crash If I Want To] Reference