manipulation

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Noun
  • Many organizations don't have the engineering resources to deploy these tests at scale.
    Rahul Wankhede, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
  • According to Porter, the most in-demand and future-proof skills are cybersecurity, data analytics, software engineering, and artificial intelligence.
    Vicki Salemi, Boston Herald, 25 May 2025
Noun
  • To inform more residents, the emergency management team posts on social media with information around the weather.
    Taylor O’Connor, Kansas City Star, 3 June 2025
  • Representatives of the property management company milled a block away holding drills.
    Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2025
Noun
  • Individual polls show that Americans remain sharply divided over Trump's handling of the economy during his second term.
    Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 June 2025
  • Santa Ono drew criticism from both pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel camps in Michigan over his handling of the protests.
    Philissa Cramer, Sun Sentinel, 4 June 2025
Noun
  • The water pressure then causes the vehicle to rise and slide on a thin layer of water between the tires and the road, making the driver lose control.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 6 June 2025
  • Swift’s management of her career has been touted as a model to reduce the structural inefficiencies in music licensing and broadcasting, to promote equity sharing with record labels, and to give artists in general more control over their creative work.
    Time, Time, 5 June 2025
Noun
  • Authenticity is a prime objective of the series, from the depiction of military operations and intelligence work to the emotional and psychological realities of service.
    Denise Petski, Deadline, 29 May 2025
  • Those efforts didn’t stop gamblers like Lefty Rosenthal from running underground bookmaking operations using the technology of the time: long-distance phone lines.
    Austin Meek, New York Times, 29 May 2025
Noun
  • The Trump administration’s tough stance on the budget and waste reduction will place Smith in a challenging position, leading an organization that acknowledges the need for reform but lacks the drive to implement it.
    Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
  • The Tesla and SpaceX CEO spent the past four months leading the administration's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which set out to slash government bloat and eliminate waste, fraud and abuse.
    Joey Garrison, USA Today, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • The federal government often picks up the entire bill in big disasters and most of it in smaller ones.
    Seth Borenstein, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2025
  • The legislative measure failed, but the Canadian courts issued a ruling in favor of youth climate litigants alleging government responsibility for climate change impacts.
    Monica Sanders, Forbes.com, 1 June 2025
Noun
  • Thus the movie’s financial and martial machinations take place within a more elemental family drama: in order to win his daughter’s allegiance and affection, Zsa-zsa must pursue a mock-Shakespearean plot of fratricidal revenge.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 29 May 2025
  • But her machinations also serve as an extreme example of complicity against which Pabst’s more subtly evolving behavior can be measured.
    Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 6 May 2025
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“Manipulation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/manipulation. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.

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