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as in exploited
to control or take advantage of by artful, unfair, or insidious means
the con man would slyly manipulate the emotions of his marks in order to win their sympathy and trust
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as in managed
to deal with (something) usually skillfully or efficiently
spin doctors manipulating the data to make it seem more favorable to their preferred candidates
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as in negotiated
to plan out usually with subtle skill or care
manipulated the schedule of presidential primaries so that the choice of the party elders would win the nomination
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Recent Examples of manipulated
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 Apr. 2026
Mazzola, 43, also allegedly participated in an armed robbery to steal a manipulated shuffling machine.
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Daniel Arkin,
NBC news,
24 Oct. 2025
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
3 July 2026
The other company whose shares were manipulated in the scheme, E-Waste, had an even higher market cap at some point, despite being nothing more than a shell company.
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Dan Mangan,
CNBC,
3 July 2026
Spotify asked Kalshi and Polymarket to remove its logo from their sites after users allegedly manipulated data on the streaming platform to cash out on prediction markets.
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J.d. Capelouto,
semafor.com,
2 July 2026
The number of people vulnerable to government-impersonation scams, in particular, is much higher, as anyone can be reached by phone or text, and quickly manipulated into thinking irrationally about how to avoid arrest, according to Brown.
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Ella Moore
july 2,
Miami Herald,
2 July 2026
Most troublingly, Anthropic said, was a case in which the model was manipulated into producing code that demonstrated how a vulnerability could be exploited.
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Ashley Belanger,
ArsTechnica,
1 July 2026
Rhaenyra cannot behead the Usurper, but this man — her father’s hand, who manipulated them all in the name of naked ambition — makes a fitting surrogate.
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Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
29 June 2026
The attorney general's office also alleges that Foster-Smith manipulated the crime scene in an attempt to conceal the killing before fleeing the location.
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Luke Chinman,
PEOPLE,
29 June 2026
In April 2026, the New England Journal of Medicine retracted a paper after discovering that a clinical image had been manipulated with AI.
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Nan Li,
The Conversation,
22 June 2026
Adjective
What emerged was a startling portrait of manipulated devotion that culminated in Jeffs' 2006 arrest by the FBI.
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Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 Apr. 2026
Mazzola, 43, also allegedly participated in an armed robbery to steal a manipulated shuffling machine.
—
Daniel Arkin,
NBC news,
24 Oct. 2025
Verb
In all the stories across both timelines, Dinner said there’s a common thread about memories and how they can be manipulated, and that exploring it was part of the appeal of the new season — not just for the audience, but for the director.
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Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
3 July 2026
The other company whose shares were manipulated in the scheme, E-Waste, had an even higher market cap at some point, despite being nothing more than a shell company.
—
Dan Mangan,
CNBC,
3 July 2026
Spotify asked Kalshi and Polymarket to remove its logo from their sites after users allegedly manipulated data on the streaming platform to cash out on prediction markets.
—
J.d. Capelouto,
semafor.com,
2 July 2026
The number of people vulnerable to government-impersonation scams, in particular, is much higher, as anyone can be reached by phone or text, and quickly manipulated into thinking irrationally about how to avoid arrest, according to Brown.
—
Ella Moore
july 2,
Miami Herald,
2 July 2026
Most troublingly, Anthropic said, was a case in which the model was manipulated into producing code that demonstrated how a vulnerability could be exploited.
—
Ashley Belanger,
ArsTechnica,
1 July 2026
Rhaenyra cannot behead the Usurper, but this man — her father’s hand, who manipulated them all in the name of naked ambition — makes a fitting surrogate.
—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
29 June 2026
The attorney general's office also alleges that Foster-Smith manipulated the crime scene in an attempt to conceal the killing before fleeing the location.
—
Luke Chinman,
PEOPLE,
29 June 2026
In April 2026, the New England Journal of Medicine retracted a paper after discovering that a clinical image had been manipulated with AI.
—
Nan Li,
The Conversation,
22 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for manipulated
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Without much public debate or planning, these semi-engineered levees took on a critical and unintended role.
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Social media has exploited this tendency, driving an algorithmic wedge into our society that the founders could hardly have imagined.
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The book is often about the ways in which wellness and self-care have become commodified and exploited — having to level up to buy things in order to feel good.
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The Phillies loaded the bases with two outs in the second, and after fouling off several Chandler pitches, Crawford took another late swipe and managed to hit one down the third base line off the end of the bat.
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In addition, problems at large banks — the failure of which could cause systemic issues — can be managed better if those banks have a larger cushion of reserves to draw on, either to get through a difficult period or to be resolved.
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The deal was negotiated by Amazon MGM Studios and Sarah Vacchiano for United Artists.
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Any deal negotiated between team officials and the city will need to come back to the City Council for final approval.
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The company in 2020 pleaded guilty to distributing adulterated ice-cream products and agreed to pay a fine over the outbreak.
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And while most of those overdoses involved the illicit synthetic opioid fentanyl, experts say that an adulterated and contaminated drug supply is also leading to deaths.
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Dana, falling in love with Zorro and out of love with Diego, and being deceived by both, is sublimely affecting.
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In nearly half of all scams, 49% of the victims were also deceived into personally sending money to the scammers.
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But the Colorado legislation, signed into law in May, allows the state to pursue the types of cases typically handled at the federal level, such as those involving allegations of discrimination and harassment.
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The Dodgers have praised how Tucker has handled his struggles in the first year of a four-year, $240 million deal.
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The Live Nation website arranged on a laptop in New York, US, on Wednesday, April 17, 2024.
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As visitors like Fulkerson settled into folding chairs arranged along the same grassy knoll where John Brown and his followers fought their way into the red-brick armory, Kerwin rose, stepped to the microphone and looked out at the crowd gathered before her.
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“Manipulated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/manipulated. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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