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manipulation

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


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Depp takes him through the book’s calvary of the spirit, one ghost at a time, director West’s manipulation of the journey’s horror dragging us far into Scrooge’s nightmare epiphanies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026

Election experts say occasional problems with touch-screen machines don’t signify tampering or manipulation.

From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2026

Yet it was accompanied by some wild speculation in railroad stocks, and some fraud and manipulation.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026

The prosecutor must show that some kind of human intent arises in laws prohibiting fraud, money-laundering, market manipulation, price-fixing, tax crimes, bribery and certain environmental crimes, to give a few examples.

From Slate ● Oct. 25, 2026

In the technosphere of the Andes, Lechtman explained, “people solved basic engineering problems through the manipulation of fibers,” not by creating and joining hard wooden or metal objects.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 4, 2026

Future studies will also use targeted manipulations of brain circuits to better understand the causal relationship between neural pathways and memory function.

From Science Daily ● May 30, 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

His 1913 trial led to his conviction despite shoddy evidence and the manipulations of an ambitious prosecuting attorney, who shamelessly preyed on the prejudices of the jury.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2025

The problems were compliant, pliable; they yielded to my manipulations, forming into solutions, one after the other.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover


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