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manipulation

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Recent Examples of manipulation 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 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 The release builds on Gemini Robotics introduced earlier this year, expanding capabilities beyond tabletop manipulation to full-body movement. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 30 July 2026 An increasing number of the complaints deal with more than one article or complicated situations such as editorial misconduct or peer-review manipulation. — IEEE Spectrum, 30 July 2026 In many places, that means destroying farmland, polluting, and putting immense pressure on the grid— sometimes achieved through secrecy, pressure, and manipulation. — Ethan Brooks, The Atlantic, 30 July 2026 Divine punishment can make for great spectacle, and spectacle, the film argues, can easily become an instrument of mass manipulation and mind control. — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 30 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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Ternus has hired Laura Legros, who served as a vice president of hardware engineering until retiring in 2022, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

— Bloomberg, Mercury News, 4 Aug. 2026
In many technology initiatives, management and engineering are not actually disagreeing.

— Nik Froehlich, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 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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Furthermore, MedPage Today reported last month that at the annual meeting of the American Medical Association delegates urged the FDA to improve their handling of peptides.

— Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
Indeed, Trump’s approval ratings on his handling of the economy have slumped alongside his numbers on the Iran war, with support slipping even among Republicans.

— Jason Ma, Fortune, 2 Aug. 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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Tribal governments, whose compacts trade exclusivity for revenue shares, have their own version of the grievance, which is why four New Mexico tribes sued Kalshi in May on sovereignty grounds.

— Zennon Kapron, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2026
Armstrong's family bought the home in 1944 after his father had moved them about a dozen times with his job as a government auditor.

— ABC News, ABC News, 5 Aug. 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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