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manipulation

[muh-nip-yuh-ley-shuhn] / məˌnɪp yəˈleɪ ʃən /


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This sounds like a blatant manipulation tactic—what do you make of it?

From Slate • Apr. 16, 2026

“Without that review and without apolitical, objective, honest brokers involved in the process, there is a much greater risk for intentional manipulation or inadvertent interference,” Keller said.

From Salon • Apr. 14, 2026

Some traders have complained that the process is ripe for manipulation by anonymous UMA “whales” whose holdings of the token gives them outsize voting power.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

Historical “bucket shops” serve as a parallel, demonstrating how unregulated speculative trading led to market manipulation and eventual crackdowns.

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

Even the tale he’d chosen for Bronwyn to read that first night in the forest, about the stone giant, had been a manipulation.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs




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