manipulative
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“He was a very manipulative man,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
As the tribunes, Bernardo De Paula’s Brutus and Daniel DeYoung’s Sicinius scheme and rabble-rouse with manipulative glee.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
According to TikTok’s community guidelines, the platform bans accounts engaging in deceptive or manipulative activity or discrimination.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
Louis had plenty of reasons for doing his maker dirty in “Interview,” like the fact that Lestat de Lioncourt was emotionally withholding and manipulative.
From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026
If things had been a little different, it might have been some other creature whose intelligence and manipulative ability would have led to comparable accomplishments.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
“Kids should be outside, they should be playing, they should be using manipulatives and tactiles.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2026
I could suggest ways of bringing manipulatives to traditional paper and pencil mathematics.
From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2020
This philosophy--championed most famously by the Swiss developmental psychologist Jean Piaget--explains the near ubiquity of counting rods and beads, known in academic circles as manipulatives, in most grade-school classrooms.
From Time Magazine Archive
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