- present participle of manipulate.
manipulating
Example Sentences
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Whether Foundation can build hands capable of manipulating a weapon designed for a person remains open.
From BBC • Jun. 8, 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
If he’d been manipulating Bob into making that choice...well, then, Annabeth was stunned that Percy could be so calculating.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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