as in tampering (with)
to handle thoughtlessly, ignorantly, or mischievously
please don't play with the telephone
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manipulating
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Was Prater manipulating evidence?—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
5 Sep. 2025 -
One was based on hard-coding logical rules for categorizing inputs into symbols and then for manipulating those symbols to arrive at outputs.—
Jeremy Kahn,
Fortune,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Playing (with).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/playing%20%28with%29. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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