MANEUVERED Synonyms: 76 Similar and Opposite Words

maneuvered

verb

past tense of maneuver

as in manipulated

to deal with (something) usually skillfully or efficiently maneuvered the conversation so as to avoid the touchy subject of her divorce

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as in negotiated

to plan out usually with subtle skill or care successfully maneuvered a way to get him to ask her to the dance

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Recent Examples of maneuvered A lot of draft pundits, including at The Athletic, have maneuvered a handful of defensemen inside their top six all year, along with McKenna and Stenberg. —

Scott Powers, New York Times, 6 May 2026 The Patriots maneuvered up the board again on Friday, trading up to select Illinois edge defender Gabe Jacas 55th overall. —

Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 25 Apr. 2026 And continued to sit, for 32 picks, as the rest of the league maneuvered around them. —

Luca Evans, Denver Post, 24 Apr. 2026 Authorities deployed spike strips, but the suspect maneuvered around them and kept going, leading police on a chase that lasted nearly 30 minutes before heading onto the Bay Bridge. —

Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 24 Apr. 2026 Using highly specialized transporters, engineers maneuvered the top four-fifths of the SLS core stage, the section containing the liquid hydrogen tank, liquid oxygen tank, intertank, and forward skirt, from inside NASA Michoud to the agency’s Pegasus barge. —

Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 24 Apr. 2026 That showed on one third-quarter play, when Melton maneuvered into the lane and tossed a nice lob to Charles Bassey for a resounding dunk. —

Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Apr. 2026 Dressed in hiking gear and beaded necklaces, Carranza, 67, maneuvered between trees and children on a sunny morning in December. —

Vanessa G. Sánchez, NPR, 6 Apr. 2026 Over the last few years, the Mets have maneuvered the rotation to be able to give him an extra day of rest between each start. —

Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 5 Apr. 2026

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Defense attorneys argued at trial that the investigation into the assassination was a mess and that the four were manipulated into taking blame for an internal coup.

— David Fischer, Sun Sentinel, 8 May 2026
These were teenagers, and they were manipulated.

— Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 8 May 2026