- present participle of manipulate.
manipulating
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Their findings, published in Science Advances in the paper "Manipulating the direction of turbulent energy flux via tensor geometry in a two-dimensional flow," could have implications for medicine, coastal management, and climate science.
From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 2026
Manipulating the numbers, and trading on classified or insider information, have been recurring problems on prediction markets.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026
Manipulating all these people to do their bidding, the charming if morally iffy twins are talented at turning a no into a yes.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2025
Manipulating even one stock, let alone the entire market, generally takes at least a little bit of ingenuity.
From Slate • Apr. 8, 2025
Manipulating an infinite sum—whether it is in the Achilles problem or in finding the area underneath a curve or finding an alternate form for a mathematical function—caused mathematicians to come up with contradictory results.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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