manipulated

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The videos are real, but the picture they shape for you is often skewed, manipulated, or plain false.

From Slate • May 6, 2026

A group so small, in fact, that its members can be manipulated by the subtly deployed malice of just one man.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026

“It is reprehensible that a state corrections officer can be seduced by greed and manipulated by others to commit such crimes that endanger the public,” Hochman said in the statement.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

The pontiff blasted those he said had manipulated "the very name of God" for their own gain, while touring a region ravaged by a deadly insurgency.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026

Welles had manipulated the audience’s perception of time by dragging out the carprogram’s beginning and then accelerating once the newsflashes started.

From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow