manipulating

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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

Enron and others made the problem far worse by manipulating the market.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 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

It appears to mean getting one's way by cheating and manipulating.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro