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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for August 26, 2019 is:
wangle \WANG-gul\ verb
1 : to resort to trickery
2 : to adjust or manipulate for personal or fraudulent ends
3 : to make or get by devious means : finagle
Examples:
"He wangled an invitation to a White House Christmas party, where he and his wife posed for a photo with then-President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama." — Barbara Demick and Victoria Kim, The Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2019
"'Our Mayor is the most appealing man I know,' Franklin D. Roosevelt said on one occasion. 'He comes to Washington and tells me a sad story. The tears run down my cheeks and the tears run down his cheeks and the next thing I know, he has wangled another $50 million out of me.'" — Mason B. Williams, City of Ambition, 2013
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