I. noun
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Flame control: a certain amount of finesse is required to fine tune the heat output.
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It is the trick of the big-stage musical number but applied to circus with finesse and much tongue-in-cheek humour.
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The game was a hard slog with no finesse , despite the promotion aspirations of both sides.
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The stats make her a strange hybrid of power and finesse , a combination that she resisted for a while.
II. verb
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Kemp uses his creativity to find excuses which are meant to finesse problematic moments.
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Roberts finessed his arrival, speaking to Fernandez privately about their shared responsibilities.
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I had a miserable quantitative background and ended up copying some assignments and finessing the rest as best I could.
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Mr Chen's approach is to finesse the problem of reunification through a mixture of goodwill and verbal subtlety.
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Somehow, we hoped, when the test finally came, she would be able to finesse the written stuff.
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The guard would know he was trying to get away and finesse the whole thing!