manipulating

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Instead, the black shiny faceless Phantom robot is engaged in "free play", manipulating a bunch of coloured kids blocks.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

And one 10-second play from Friday’s Game 2 shows just how the Knicks have counteracted the player known as The Alien—by manipulating space and time.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 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

The rower was manipulating his oars to keep the boat still on the water.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman