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manipulation

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Recent Examples of manipulation Being collaborative, open, and flexible differentiates this type of communication from manipulation or bullying. — Kate Wieczorek, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026 The difference, said Kornhaber, is Charli’s commitment to autonomy and her public manipulation of her own image. — Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 24 July 2026 Parental alienation is a dynamic that occurs when a child refuses to have a relationship with a parent due to manipulation by the other parent, such as by conveying of exaggerated or false information, as Psychology Today explains. — Martha Ross, Mercury News, 23 July 2026 Unlike LLMs like ChatGPT, which can parse the virtually boundless internet, robots need manipulation data collected in the real physical world, which is costly and difficult to scale. — Charlie Campbell, Time, 23 July 2026 The team generated 100 evaluation scenes covering four manipulation tasks. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 23 July 2026 People are flooding their comment sections from afar with questions, condolences and claims of AI manipulation. — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 22 July 2026 The model enables real-time omni-modal interaction, reasoning, dialogue, and whole-body mobile manipulation in a single system. — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 21 July 2026 Polymarket and Kalshi both prohibit any type of market manipulation. — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 20 July 2026

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Noun

Monos is among our editors' all-time favorite luggage brands, thanks to its clean, minimalist aesthetic and clever engineering.

— Charley Ward, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 July 2026
The company is expanding its engineering workforce in Andover, Massachusetts, to support the SPY-6 program, with positions available for new graduates, experienced engineers and veterans.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 21 July 2026

Definition of engineering

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Court records show that in early 2022, Arbuckle managed a team of more than 20 and helped forecast loan demand across major sectors of the bank, including corporate, commercial, wealth management and small-business banking.

— Chase Jordan July 30, Charlotte Observer, 30 July 2026
Maritime risk-management company Marisks on Wednesday said the affected vessels were moved outside the port.

— Salma Arafa, CNN Money, 30 July 2026

Definition of management

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Founded in 1992 and now part of Next Yacht Group, AB Yachts has established its reputation through a range of open yachts created around speed, handling, and a close connection to the water.

— Rachel Ingram, Robb Report, 26 July 2026
Critics have suggested Engelbert be fired for her handling of the league's controversies this season and in recent years.

— Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 26 July 2026

Definition of handling

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Ceuta’s residents recalled a similar but smaller migration crisis in 2021, when the Moroccan government dropped its border controls and let several thousand people from Morocco and sub-Saharan countries into Ceuta over two days.

— ABC News, ABC News, 1 Aug. 2026
The competitive edge is shifting from raw model intelligence to efficient operations, specialized data, and infrastructure control.

— Gerui Wang, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of control

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Kansas plans on hiring Sam Strantz, senior team counsel for the NBA’s Houston Rockets, as the Jayhawks athletic department’s new executive director of front office strategy and operations, ESPN reported Friday.

— Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 1 Aug. 2026
The plan to consolidate FIFA’s commercial and event operations into a new commercial subsidiary valued at $20 billion is off the table, FIFA President Gianni Infantino said in a statement.

— Dennis Romero, NBC news, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of operation

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The Obama administration designated Haiti for TPS in January 2010 after an earthquake killed 316,000 people, as reported by the Haitian government.

— Jay Weaver July 22, Miami Herald, 22 July 2026
The federal government is giving $1,000 to children born between 2025 and 2028.

— Cassidy Alexander, AJC.com, 22 July 2026

Definition of government

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However, year after year, predicting Preller’s midsummer machinations has proved a largely futile endeavor.

— Dennis Lin, New York Times, 30 July 2026
Kapor had a lot more to say, about blazing a trail without a map, about the machinations of markets, and about the opportunities that the world is exploring now.

— John Werner, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026

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