manipulating

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Once that happens, it’s a short step to manipulating the law to accommodate a desire.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 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 movie’s most interesting and topical decision is reinventing Freida Pilkington as a Cybertruck-driving, tech billionaire who wants nothing more than a healthy cash flow, manipulating every animal to keep her money coming in.

From Salon • May 3, 2026

It found Kim guilty of manipulating the share price of Deutsch Motors, a South Korean car dealer, which it ruled a "collusive... trading act constituting market manipulation".

From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026

If he’d been manipulating Bob into making that choice...well, then, Annabeth was stunned that Percy could be so calculating.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan