- present participle of manipulate.
manipulating
Example Sentences
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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
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
In 2026, another team reported an integrated photonic chip capable of generating, manipulating, and measuring multipartite cluster state entanglement on a single device.
From Science Daily • May 13, 2026
I feel guilty manipulating them, but Javier was right.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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