The baby is learning to manipulate blocks. The mechanical arms are manipulated by a computer. The doctor manipulated my back. The program was designed to organize and manipulate large amounts of data. He's always been good at manipulating numbers in his head. As part of the experiment, students manipulated light and temperature to see how it affected the plants. She knows how to manipulate her parents to get what she wants. He felt that he had been manipulated by the people he trusted most. The editorial was a blatant attempt to manipulate public opinion. He's accused of trying to manipulate the price of the stock. See More
Recent Examples on the WebTrinity Teen Solutions repeatedly suggests to parents in a handbook that their daughter will lie and manipulate them in an attempt to get pulled out of the program. Tyler Kingkade, NBC News, 7 Sep. 2022 But this means multiple people can reach the same piece of information and manipulate it independently. Edgar Shaghoulian, Scientific American, 22 Aug. 2022 Otherwise, a malicious party might be able to manipulate it to gain a majority control over some committees. Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 19 Aug. 2022 Interactive content is any content that allows users to manipulate it and gain some feedback. Sarah Malcolm, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022 So figuring out how to manipulate it in a way that appeared nimble was a huge part of the challenge. Nojan Aminosharei, Men's Health, 16 May 2022 Audio hacks that manipulate speakers, grab information leaked in vibrations, or exploit resonant frequency vulnerabilities aren’t discovered often in research but are an intriguing area.WIRED, 22 Aug. 2022 Smaller heads are better for little baby mouths according to Dr. Kwatra and Dr. Barrer, and fatter handles are easier for little hands to manipulate. Jamie Spain, Good Housekeeping, 22 Aug. 2022 Baseball’s new collective bargaining agreement provides incentive for teams not to manipulate service time for top prospects. Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 19 Aug. 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
back-formation from manipulation, from French, from manipuler to handle an apparatus in chemistry, ultimately from Latin manipulus