Manipulate can be categorized as a verb.
Verb |
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| manipulate - hold something in one's hands and move it | ||
| manipulate - control (others or oneself) or influence skillfully, usually to one's advantage; "She manipulates her boss"; "She is a very controlling mother and doesn't let her children grow up"; "The teacher knew how to keep the class in line"; "she keeps in line" | ||
| manipulate - influence or control shrewdly or deviously; "He manipulated public opinion in his favor" | ||
| manipulate - treat manually, as with massage, for therapeutic purposed | ||
| manipulate - tamper, with the purpose of deception; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data" | ||
| manipulate - manipulate in a fraudulent manner; "rig prices" |
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| 1. | verb | The fellow was carrying papers from Zawahiri and bragging about his ability to manipulate anthrax. | |
| 2. | verb | A state Senate committee is set today to start serving 16 subpoenas on electricity producers and officials who manage California's energy grid to determine whether they acted in concert to manipulate energy prices. | |
| 3. | verb | Tom doesn't like people who manipulate others. | |
| 4. | verb | Can you really manipulate the thought and behavior of people by using subliminal messages? | |
| 5. | verb | Don't try to manipulate me. | |
| 6. | verb | You know how to manipulate me. | |
| 7. | verb | He tried to manipulate me. | |
| 8. | verb | As far as I understand despite my limited knowledge, here in Venezuela we must adapt to the prevailing mentality and social order. Therefore, an individual must live among opportunism, poverty, manipulation and superficiality. It might be a very characteristic Latino idiosyncrasy to behave as in the book "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" by Gabriel García Márquez when it comes to dealing with delicate situations. Everybody knows what's happening, but nobody raises his voice and even if somebody did, nobody would support him. Only enlightenment through education could end the ignorance that is a scourge on our people, from which many other problems arise. However, it's unlikely to expect a government to propose to spread values that threaten its own interests, because it's better for them to keep society ignorant in order to manipulate it with ease. | |
| 9. | verb | Are you trying to manipulate me? | |
| 10. | verb | She's just trying to manipulate you. | |
| 11. | verb | They think they can manipulate us. | |
| 12. | verb | Tom tried to manipulate me. | |
| 13. | verb | Fadil wanted to control and manipulate Layla. | |
| 14. | verb | Fadil was able to manipulate and deceive Layla. | |
| 15. | verb | Tom is trying to manipulate you. |
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| The fellow was carrying papers from Zawahiri and bragging about his ability to manipulate anthrax. |
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| A state Senate committee is set today to start serving 16 subpoenas on electricity producers and officials who manage California's energy grid to determine whether they acted in concert to manipulate energy prices. |
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| Tom doesn't like people who manipulate others. | |
| Can you really manipulate the thought and behavior of people by using subliminal messages? | |
| Don't try to manipulate me. | |
| You know how to manipulate me. | |
| He tried to manipulate me. | |
| As far as I understand despite my limited knowledge, here in Venezuela we must adapt to the prevailing mentality and social order. Therefore, an individual must live among opportunism, poverty, manipulation and superficiality. It might be a very characteristic Latino idiosyncrasy to behave as in the book "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" by Gabriel García Márquez when it comes to dealing with delicate situations. Everybody knows what's happening, but nobody raises his voice and even if somebody did, nobody would support him. Only enlightenment through education could end the ignorance that is a scourge on our people, from which many other problems arise. However, it's unlikely to expect a government to propose to spread values that threaten its own interests, because it's better for them to keep society ignorant in order to manipulate it with ease. | |
| Are you trying to manipulate me? | |
| She's just trying to manipulate you. | |
| They think they can manipulate us. | |
| Tom tried to manipulate me. | |
| Fadil wanted to control and manipulate Layla. | |
| Fadil was able to manipulate and deceive Layla. | |
| Tom is trying to manipulate you. | |