manipulating

Example Sentences

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Once that happens, it’s a short step to manipulating the law to accommodate a desire.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

By cooling and manipulating these atoms, scientists can entangle them and perform highly precise computations.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

Instead of simply cooling the atoms, they proposed manipulating the vacuum itself by creating "squeezed states," quantum states in which position and velocity behave in unusual ways.

From Science Daily • May 18, 2026

We’ve been worrying about supersmart computers, but we should also worry about super-adorable computers manipulating gullible people.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026

I can tell she thinks that I am manipulating him and that I am doing a good job of it.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black