manipulation
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The meow, as cute and attuned as it may be to get a human’s attention, is not in his mind a tool for manipulation, as some have proffered.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
He is accused of violating Kalshi’s rules regarding insider trading and market manipulation, fining him more than $71,000.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
Indonesia’s President Prabowo Subianto said that trading manipulation and fraudulent export reporting had cost the country up to $908 billion from 1991 to 2024.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
The result was a form of light manipulation that had never previously been achieved at room temperature.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
But soon she grew impatient and poked her twig rhythmically and intensely into the earth, making a small neat hole that grew deeper and wider with the least manipulation of her twig.
From "Sula" by Toni Morrison
The book comments on the manipulations Grossman’s pieces were subjected to and discusses how efforts to find earlier drafts of the publications in Russian archives have been unsuccessful.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Muddy Waters has accused the company of accounting manipulation partly to benefit its chief executive, claiming that “without these manipulations, CEO Noto would lose most—if not all—of his performance bonus.”
From Barron's ● Mar. 18, 2026
You owe yourself the power of living in your truth, free from the emotional manipulations of others.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 4, 2026
In addition to exploring dietary and microbiome manipulations that could help with liver cancer, the team is curious to see if other conditions could be treated by targeting BAAT.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2025
It flops hopelessly under her manipulations while I watch, mortified.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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