Thesaurus results for MANIPULATION

manipulation

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Recent Examples of manipulation Digit v5 will offer 20-hour operational days and flexible manipulation through standardized, eventually self-swapping, end-effectors. — John Koetsier, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026 Kalshi’s terms of service and exchange rules prohibit market manipulation and insider trading. — Joshua Hong, Fortune, 9 Aug. 2026 That scarcity mindset extends well beyond the romance, as the film’s various supporting characters broadly accept corporate manipulation and government overreach as unavoidable conditions of life. — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 5 Aug. 2026 Sometimes the harder question is what to do when your co-parent’s behavior — the volatility, the manipulation, the refusal to put the children first — is the actual threat. — Melissa Needle, Hartford Courant, 3 Aug. 2026 But according to Mullin’s daughter, Eve Mullin Collier, the manipulation didn’t sit well with her father. — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Aug. 2026 The Diplomat has expanded its scope to explore intimate stories of power and manipulation within its high-stakes political world. — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 1 Aug. 2026 Pinnock, in particular, is at his best here, showcasing a diabolical cruelty and terrifying manipulation, elevating the story and the show to a different level. — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 31 July 2026 Its primary characteristic is manipulation of behaviors and beliefs in a theater of war that is both nowhere and everywhere at once. — Will Cady, SPIN, 30 July 2026

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In 2022, a group of Mexican college graduates told the AJC they had been recruited for engineering jobs through the Trade NAFTA, or TN, visa program.

— AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 12 Aug. 2026
Tina Hague, 17, who worked on programming on the robot, hopes to go to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and study neuroengineering, or computer engineering and neuroscience.

— Jemma Stephenson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of engineering

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Political scientist Sandra Borda argued that the difficulties in aid management are related to the tense political transition between the current and previous administrations, which lacked a formal handover.

— Gonzalo Zegarra, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2026
Conventional time-management advice, Schore argues, focuses almost exclusively on visible behaviors—meetings, email volume, scheduling techniques and collaboration practices.

— Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of management

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But the recording itself — which happened in eerie circumstances and nearly destroyed one of the trumpets — also underlines how our handling of antiquities has evolved dramatically in the intervening decades.

— Sheena McKenzie, CNN Money, 10 Aug. 2026
In addition, produce is distributed through a complex supply chain, and these foods can become contaminated during irrigation, manufacturing, transportation and handling at a restaurant or at home.

— Omer Awan, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2026

Definition of handling

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Not necessarily having control of it, but understanding what Kanan did and how this was going to come back to him.

— Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 8 Aug. 2026
On June 12, Anthropic suspended access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models to comply with Commerce Department export controls.

— Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2026

Definition of control

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The operation has brought a fuel crisis that is embarrassing the Kremlin.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 Aug. 2026
Intel, the largest private employer in Oregon, also announced layoffs last month, impacting its data center operations and shrinking its workforce to 81,000 — down from more than 130,000 in 2022.

— Bryan Mena, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2026

Definition of operation

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Etzel said the executive order is also intended to put pressure on states that establish vaccine requirements for schools, while potentially setting up additional legal challenges over the federal government’s authority to influence vaccine policy.

— Adisa Hargett-Robinson, The Washington Examiner, 12 Aug. 2026
Three days later, a former lawmaker was arrested after a shooting at a government office that killed one person and injured another.

— ABC News, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of government

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Decades out of practice, Saxberger is assailed by writer’s block and confused by the machinations of a modern-day publishing industry that wants to turn his rediscovery into a branding exercise.

— Justin Chang, New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2026
His command of celebrity culture — its secrets, scandals, and machinations — was already firmly entrenched.

— Shirley Halperin, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2026

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