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manipulation

[muh-nip-yuh-lay-shuhn] / məˌnɪp jəˈleɪ ʃən /


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The NBA and its sports betting partners are banning certain bets this season that are highly susceptible to manipulation.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

As Fielder gains steady footing on the margin dividing observation and manipulation, aiming the camera at either side, he uncovers something deeply, cosmically sad: Holmes can’t seem to tell the difference between the two.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

Trainers used manual manipulation to find Diaz’ ideal arm slot and build muscle memory, and he was quickly cleared to resume throwing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Similarly, OpenAI’s proof of Navier-Stokes was without question a fantastically complex exercise in sign manipulation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Mendel’s gift was experimentation—the manipulation of organisms, cross-fertilization of carefully selected sub-breeds, the testing of hypotheses.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

When researchers added two optimized passive diffractive layers while testing more difficult deepfake manipulations, detection accuracy improved by ~6.8%.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

The financial manipulations that undergirded their fortunes get scrutinized as theft from the public purse, praise for their courage and perspicacity yields to condemnation for their conduct.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

The figure shows that over 80% of hourly workers and 30% of salaried workers could benefit from the manipulations.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 4, 2026

Teacher and performer, he revealed the works of Nature to a genteel audience amid the sensory manipulations of the theater.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 14, 2026

She adored her son—the child born late in life when she wasn’t sure she could still have children, the charmer, the one whose manipulations she always gave in to.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie


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