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as in exploited
to control or take advantage of by artful, unfair, or insidious means
the con man would slyly manipulate the emotions of his marks in order to win their sympathy and trust
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to deal with (something) usually skillfully or efficiently
spin doctors manipulating the data to make it seem more favorable to their preferred candidates
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to plan out usually with subtle skill or care
manipulated the schedule of presidential primaries so that the choice of the party elders would win the nomination
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Recent Examples of manipulated
Daniel Arkin, NBC news, 24 Oct. 2025
Becky Wern, Florida Times-Union, 7 Mar. 2026
In the lab setting, various atmospheric variables can be precisely manipulated to closely understand the phenomenon.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 6 Mar. 2026
They must be manipulated by someone whose brain has to figure out and execute whatever needs to be done.
—Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2026
Authors, professors, nonprofits and more over the last 55 years have continually manipulated the relevance of 20 springs first identified along the Ocklawaha by a graduate student in 1971.
—Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Mar. 2026
The new proposal will now undergo a 60-day comment period and has already faced pushback from the largest federal workers’ union, which has argued that the performance review system has been manipulated to cap how many employees receive high rankings.
—Meryl Kornfield, Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2026
This woman took advantage of them and manipulated them.
—Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2026
The clear implication is that Israel is pulling the strings and Trump is being manipulated.
—Chicago Tribune, 3 Mar. 2026
One of the images – which was flagged during a CNN check as being potentially AI-manipulated – showed the girl, believed to be named Kim Ju Ae and in her early teens, firing a sniper rifle.
—Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 28 Feb. 2026
Adjective
Mazzola, 43, also allegedly participated in an armed robbery to steal a manipulated shuffling machine.
—Daniel Arkin, NBC news, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
Easter changes date every year, and the blooms on sale are carefully manipulated to bloom on time.
—Becky Wern, Florida Times-Union, 7 Mar. 2026
In the lab setting, various atmospheric variables can be precisely manipulated to closely understand the phenomenon.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 6 Mar. 2026
They must be manipulated by someone whose brain has to figure out and execute whatever needs to be done.
—Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2026
Authors, professors, nonprofits and more over the last 55 years have continually manipulated the relevance of 20 springs first identified along the Ocklawaha by a graduate student in 1971.
—Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Mar. 2026
The new proposal will now undergo a 60-day comment period and has already faced pushback from the largest federal workers’ union, which has argued that the performance review system has been manipulated to cap how many employees receive high rankings.
—Meryl Kornfield, Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2026
This woman took advantage of them and manipulated them.
—Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2026
The clear implication is that Israel is pulling the strings and Trump is being manipulated.
—Chicago Tribune, 3 Mar. 2026
One of the images – which was flagged during a CNN check as being potentially AI-manipulated – showed the girl, believed to be named Kim Ju Ae and in her early teens, firing a sniper rifle.
—Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 28 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for manipulated
Adjective
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Without much public debate or planning, these semi-engineered levees took on a critical and unintended role.—
Farshid Vahedifard,
The Conversation,
29 Dec. 2025
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Even more concerning, one of them is already being exploited by attackers.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
10 Mar. 2026
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After Europeans arrived, the islands were exploited for the military, ranching, drilling, and fishing.—
Betsy Andrews,
Condé Nast Traveler,
10 Mar. 2026
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And yet, Trump has also managed to avoid complex questions about those issues — the most pressing before his administration — and despite Democrats and some of his own supporters lashing out over them.—
Kevin Rector,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Mar. 2026
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Gibb managed to get to 17 points, but finished just 6 of 22 from the field.—
Steven Johnson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
7 Mar. 2026
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The county’s risk-assessment attorneys had negotiated a settlement for about $6 million that would have resolved all of the cases, but the Board of Supervisors rejected it in August 2021 and hired Sheppard-Mullin to defend the county.—
City News Service,
Oc Register,
11 Mar. 2026
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The deal was negotiated between Frank Jaffe from Altered Innocence and Monica Ciarli from Minerva Pictures.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
11 Mar. 2026
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The company in 2020 pleaded guilty to distributing adulterated ice-cream products and agreed to pay a fine over the outbreak.—
Dylan Tokar,
WSJ,
2 Feb. 2023
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And while most of those overdoses involved the illicit synthetic opioid fentanyl, experts say that an adulterated and contaminated drug supply is also leading to deaths.—
Nadia Kounang,
CNN,
17 Mar. 2022
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Residents should not be deceived by the unsupported and absurd revenue claims of the Moore administration.—
Torrey Snow,
Baltimore Sun,
11 Mar. 2026
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So some people got deceived and believed it.—
Chierstin Roth,
CBS News,
5 Mar. 2026
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What gave the session its edge, however, was the way Ávalos handled the room.—
Emiliano de Pablos,
Variety,
12 Mar. 2026
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Getting individuals to step back and reimagine those processes to be end-to-end automated or handled by agents requires intentional cultural transformation.—
Ruba Borno,
Fortune,
12 Mar. 2026
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Building an ultrathin nickelate with atomic precision The team focused on a compound called La₃Ni₂O₇, a nickelate made of nickel and oxygen atoms arranged in layered structures.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Mar. 2026
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Standard rooms are large by New York City standards, and smartly arranged for maximum floor space.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
7 Mar. 2026
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“Manipulated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/manipulated. Accessed 14 Mar. 2026.
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