angle (for)

verb

Definition of angle (for)next
1
as in to fish (for)

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2
as in to hammer out

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for angle (for)
  1. hammer out
  2. scheme
  3. plot
  4. work out
  5. concert
  6. arrange
  7. intrigue
  8. compass
Verb
  • Last month, top officials from the State and Defense departments met with their counterparts in Caracas to hammer out details of the oil deal.
    — Fritz Farrow, ABC News, 31 Aug. 2026
  • In 2011, former Time Warner Cable executives hammered out the 20-year agreement with the Lakers, then owned by the late Jerry Buss.
    — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of hammer out
Verb
  • Hardly the smoking gun that puts him in an Afghan cave, scheming with bin Laden.
    — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Issa acts on that notion by encouraging a threesome between herself, Paul Baker, and Anton, who has spent much of the episode getting increasingly annoyed about being left out of everyone else’s scheming.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of scheme
Verb
  • There’s also growing evidence that building a career inside a firm continues to be a more reliable route to success than trying to plot a path across companies.
    — Matthew Bidwell, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Proper later allegedly admitted to plotting the UFC 250 attack and described it in full to the FBI, according to the criminal complaint.
    — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of plot
Verb
  • One in particular has worked out splendidly for the past 15 years.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2026
  • When Dow arrived at the Alaska Smokejumper Base, in 1975, sixty-five men worked out of an airplane hangar that had been abandoned after the Second World War.
    — M. R. O’Connor, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of work out
Verb
  • Singer Barry Manilow had to postpone his Lexington, Kentucky, concert unexpectedly on Tuesday night.
    — Yi-Jin Yu, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2026
  • There are also new locker room accommodations for visiting teams that can be turned into lounges for celebrities and musical artists when Albertsons Stadium hosts concerts.
    — Rachel Roberts, Idaho Statesman, 30 July 2026
Definition of concert
Verb
  • Still, each guest enjoys their secluded villa, private spa time, and a personal guide to arrange hiking and water excursions like snorkeling and surfing.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Tafoya arranged for five blank checks paid as bribes by a marijuana firm to be cashed with the help of his brother and passed one $10,000 check on to marketer Chavez, according to the plea agreement.
    — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of arrange
Verb
  • When some of his friends became smokejumpers, he was intrigued.
    — M. R. O’Connor, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Yet some European philosophers were intrigued by the monism of Vedanta philosophy, whereas Evangelical Christians saw the same monism as a foundation for proselytizing Christian monotheism.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of intrigue
Verb
  • At its best, McCarthy’s fiction could compass the strange and often violent order of existence.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 13 June 2023
  • It is based on the knowledge that no spoliator can compass his end without a certain degree of co-operation, willing or compulsory, of the victim.
    — Tridip Suhrud, Time, 25 Sep. 2019
Definition of compass
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