manipulative

Arasha enjoys a few choice manipulative moves in her litany of parts, reversing situations that seem to have no obvious good outcome.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Another, who estimated she had given £40,000 to NOS over seven years, recalled the "manipulative" Brain persuading her to skip her brother's wedding in South Africa and buy van for the community instead.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

Once the curbs are lifted, he argues children aged 15 and over would still be "exposed to predatory, addictive, manipulative and extractive systems which are recognised as harmful".

From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026

“He was a very manipulative man,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026

Shouldn’t we applaud any effort, regardless of how minor or manipulative, that makes even one child safer?

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt

“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