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Recent Examples of manipulative
Dado Ruvic | Reuters A judge this week rejected TikTok’s attempt to dismiss a lawsuit by the state of New Hampshire accusing it of using manipulative design features aimed at children and teens.
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Zach Vallese, CNBC, 11 July 2025
Consider Leadership’s Perspective When Presenting Ideas First, managing up does not mean being dishonest or manipulative.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
Compiled from Candace Bushnell’s column of the same name from The New York Observer, the book is a dark and bizarre look at dating in 1990s New York, where men are pathologically childish, cruel, and self-centered, and women are domineering, striving, and manipulative.
—Alice Bolin
june 23, Literary Hub, 23 June 2025
Tatis’ team claims that BLA used manipulative and unlawful tactics to lure him into an investment deal.
—Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 June 2025
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Zach Vallese, CNBC, 11 July 2025
Consider Leadership’s Perspective When Presenting Ideas First, managing up does not mean being dishonest or manipulative.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
Compiled from Candace Bushnell’s column of the same name from The New York Observer, the book is a dark and bizarre look at dating in 1990s New York, where men are pathologically childish, cruel, and self-centered, and women are domineering, striving, and manipulative.
—Alice Bolin
june 23, Literary Hub, 23 June 2025
Tatis’ team claims that BLA used manipulative and unlawful tactics to lure him into an investment deal.
—Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for manipulative
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Falter, 28, is a deceptive lefty under team control through 2028 who is enjoying his best season, with a 3.73 ERA and a 1.18 WHIP in 22 starts.—
The Athletic MLB Staff,
New York Times,
1 Aug. 2025
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The attackers use deceptive ads that imitate popular cryptocurrency brands like Binance, TradingView, ByBit and MetaMask.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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Wood did not know the details of the deceitful story that scammers told the man.—
Susan Tompor,
Freep.com,
10 July 2025
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Supporters say the measures are intended to address potential threats to public safety or personal privacy and to counter any deceitful actions facilitated by AI, while not hindering innovation.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
7 July 2025
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There’s no question which member of Congress put on the year’s most hypocritical legislative performance.—
Carl P. Leubsdorf,
Twin Cities,
23 July 2025
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There’s just this hypocritical system in which there is demand for immigrant labor in many industries, along with demonization of these very contributors.—
Steve Lopez,
Los Angeles Times,
25 June 2025
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Whether due to devious marketing misdirection or just the viewer's first-time-watch naïveté, these flicks swerve in unexpected directions by snuffing out one of their prominent characters before the first or second act is even through.—
James Mercadante,
EW.com,
23 July 2025
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Mao Zedong and his colleagues increasingly resented Soviet assumptions of superiority and leadership of the world communist movement, while Stalin’s successor Nikita Khrushchev found the Chinese devious and untrustworthy—contributing to the very public and bitter Sino-Soviet split after 1962.—
MARGARET MACMILLAN,
Foreign Affairs,
21 July 2025
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O’ahu, Maui, Kaua’i and the big island of Hawai’i were all joined by water but divided by greedy men, cunning chiefs and a cycle of endless combat.—
Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
1 Aug. 2025
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Slated for release on July 17, 2026, The Odyssey is an adaptation of the epic poem from Homer, which tells the story of Odysseus, King of Ithaca, and his perilous journey home after the Trojan War, exploring themes of heroism, loyalty, cunning, and the struggle against divine will.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
1 July 2025
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There are all sorts of bad husbands in The Hunting Wives: Jed (Dermot Mulroney) is a horny oil tycoon with his eyes set on the governor’s mansion, Clint (Jason Davis) is a snobby reverend, and Jonny (Branton Box) is a crooked sheriff.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
1 Aug. 2025
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The black hole and its crooked jet are found in a blazar known as OJ 287, located about four billion light-years away.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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Real-Life Vince McMahon Confrontation As the new Undisputed WWE Champion, Cena has embraced his villainous side, retaining his title against stars like Randy Orton by using cheap shots and underhanded tactics.—
Andrew Ravens,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 June 2025
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The union representing Southern California hospitality workers has accused a group of airlines and hotel businesses of using underhanded tactics in support of a petition to overturn a city ordinance boosting the minimum wage in Los Angeles.—
Suhauna Hussain,
Los Angeles Times,
13 June 2025
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That would be Mark Rylance as Henry’s lord privy seal, Thomas Cromwell, an endlessly fascinating and ambiguous figure—brilliant, scheming, moral—whom Rylance animates with gravity and kaleidoscopic skill.—
Taylor Antrim,
Vogue,
20 Mar. 2025
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The doors that slam, as farcical doors are built to do, open to work spaces, where a good deal of time is spent scheming and counter-scheming.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Feb. 2025
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“Manipulative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/manipulative. Accessed 8 Aug. 2025.
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