manipulate

Scientists could potentially manipulate individual molecules by "touching them" with an extremely sharp probe.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

Watch: How does music on The Traitors manipulate your emotions?

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

Thus, when his mother started reading child psychology books to better understand a young Del Toro, he read them as well, so that he could try to manipulate her.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

"Who are we allowing to feed into us and manipulate what media we consume, which bubbles we're in?" she continued.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

In cases where NTIs do not have a reasonable ability to manipulate events, it is still best to withhold information.

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly

Have you ever noticed how the soundtrack manipulates your perception?

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

“The allegation that Kelli manipulates or controls Jerry is false and deeply unfair. They share a loving and supportive partnership of more than 25 years,” a spokesman for Gerald and Kelli O. Ford said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

He manipulates the physical form of the ingredient to showcase different temperatures and textures: souffle, cream, biscuit, foam, and air.

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026

She’s showing us exactly how the majority manipulates the text until it gets where it wants to go.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

“You don’t have to be afraid of him. Some people act like witchery is responsible for everything that happens, when actually witchery only manipulates a small portion.”

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko

In its ruling, the panel said Burwood had engaged in a "sustained, calculated course of conduct" and had manipulated the resident for personal gain.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

Can Holmes really be who she is, or is she being manipulated?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Gibney says he doesn’t believe Musk manipulated votes, but the sequence leaves open what, if anything, lay behind his apparent early certainty.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

For example, one Georgia ad included the disclaimer, “This video has been manipulated or generated with artificial intelligence,” while an Oklahoma ad said, “Political satire. AI-generated images do not depict actual events.”

From Salon ● Oct. 6, 2026

Hoagland would say that now was the time for playing certain finesses, that in the wake of the activity arose those moments that could be manipulated.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

Their experiments demonstrate that carefully prepared light can be controlled through its own internal geometry, offering a new approach to manipulating how light spins and twists.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

"I can understand entirely why they did that, but they did not seem to appreciate that uploading and manipulating images of children in this way can carry real privacy and safeguarding risks."

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

That is where I try to land at the end: We’re not going to solve this problem by manipulating the chatbots.

From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026

Fielder finds himself drawn from behind the camera into the story, struggling to determine whether Holmes and Evans are being candid with him or manipulating him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

The poems I wrote were mostly about finding rhymes to put on the ends of sentences, but I liked manipulating words, and I was doing it on a more-or-less regular basis.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers