manipulate
Example Sentences
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Left said it was a farcical claim that an individual trader could manipulate such huge stocks.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026
Other players including IBM are focused on a different modality that uses quantum gates, or operations that manipulate the state of quantum bits to solve problems.
From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026
"But they help us manipulate photons very precisely to make them spin -- to twist them- in a specific direction, for example, up or down."
From Science Daily • May 30, 2026
Now randomly I say, “Are you trying to manipulate me?”
From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026
I mean, a time-traveling criminal is usually someone attempting to manipulate history with the full intention of screwing up the future, and there was nothing fluffy about that.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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