manipulative
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Senior club sources have said they found the comments "absolutely bizarre", and that it was "at best naive and at worst quite manipulative, and that is not a good look".
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 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
Erika is manipulative and selfish; Elliot doesn’t respect her boundaries either.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
It was manipulative to bring up Pia, Ollie and Bas’s little sister.
From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse
“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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