Thesaurus results for MANIPULATION

manipulation

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as in engineering

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Recent Examples of manipulation Earlier this year, Kim received a four-year prison term at an appeals court for receiving a Graff diamond necklace and two Chanel bags from the Unification Church, and stock price manipulation, a charge that is unrelated to the church. — ABC News, 31 Aug. 2026 Discerning genuine niceness from manipulation lacks a foolproof method. — Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026 If the seed is known, however, the sequence of numbers can be predicted—which is where RNG manipulation in Pokémon comes into play. — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 25 Aug. 2026 Nearly 7 percent of the images examined showed signs of manipulation. — John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 25 Aug. 2026 For most Thai citizens, the selection of 200 new senators in 2024 through an arcane and untested self-nomination system barely registered, creating ample opportunity for manipulation. — Duncan McCargo, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2026 George Orwell’s dystopian classic blends political and science fiction into a chilling panorama of high-level surveillance and manipulation. — Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 22 Aug. 2026 Duffy noted this method, which allows platforms to speed up the process of posting new event contracts, can make markets vulnerable to manipulation. — Ananya Chetia, CNBC, 21 Aug. 2026 For Apple Music, this is just the latest policy shift as the company looks to address AI and the concerns of fraud and streaming manipulation that comes with it. — Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 20 Aug. 2026

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Noun

Motorsport meets nuclear engineering Power conversion sits between the reactor and the electrical grid.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 2 Sep. 2026
The result has been a 47% year-on-year increase in engineering productivity, with teams able to work on five times more business features.

— Dana Dunne, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of engineering

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In addition to speech, our management of a localized fire for food, safety, and comfort is another uniquely human behavior, one that seems to have coincided with the development of complex spoken language.

— Mike McRae September 02, New Atlas, 3 Sep. 2026
Shelley served as the Warriors’ associate general counsel and director of business and legal affairs and risk management, and Vasquez was the vice president of diversity, equity and inclusion.

— Devon Henderson, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of management

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These trajectories document a robot’s behavior before an intervention, the moment a human operator takes control, and the corrective actions used to recover or complete the task.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2026
Having control over a venue allows stadiums to be designed specifically with a women’s sports fan in mind, which can be critical to gameday experience.

— Melanie Anzidei, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of control

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The round trip marks the first such operation at Minot, according to the Air Force.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2026
This was a real life, post-WWII intelligence operation that relocated over 1,500 German engineers, scientists, and technicians — some confirmed to have been Nazis — in order to utilize their skills in and on behalf of American soil.

— Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of operation

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The proposal would have directed money from the Treasury Department’s Judgment Fund to compensate people who claimed they were politically targeted by federal investigations during the Biden administration.

— Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2026
The administration has added two judges to the Sacramento court over that time.

— Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of administration

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Adding insult to injury, the defections came even as GOP hard-liners were ready to paralyze the House over an unrelated dispute with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on funding the government.

— Hailey Bullis, The Washington Examiner, 2 Sep. 2026
In a footnote to his dissent, Roberts wrote that the underground work on the project – which lower courts had allowed to proceed – addressed the government’s security concerns.

— Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of government

Noun

Only the machinations of ABC/Disney and my own rogue immune system have kept me from writing recaps here on Vulture over the last 11 years.

— Ali Barthwell, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2026
The Heat are expected to carry only 14 players under standard contract at the start of their season, due to their position against the hard cap created by the machinations for the acquisition of Antetokounmpo.

— Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 27 Aug. 2026

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