manipulation

noun

as in engineering

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Recent Examples of manipulation Earlier this year, Kim received a four-year prison term at an appeals court for receiving a Graff diamond necklace and two Chanel bags from the Unification Church, and stock price manipulation, a charge that is unrelated to the church. — ABC News, 31 Aug. 2026 Discerning genuine niceness from manipulation lacks a foolproof method. — Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026 If the seed is known, however, the sequence of numbers can be predicted—which is where RNG manipulation in Pokémon comes into play. — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 25 Aug. 2026 Nearly 7 percent of the images examined showed signs of manipulation. — John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 25 Aug. 2026 For most Thai citizens, the selection of 200 new senators in 2024 through an arcane and untested self-nomination system barely registered, creating ample opportunity for manipulation. — Duncan McCargo, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2026 George Orwell’s dystopian classic blends political and science fiction into a chilling panorama of high-level surveillance and manipulation. — Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 22 Aug. 2026 Duffy noted this method, which allows platforms to speed up the process of posting new event contracts, can make markets vulnerable to manipulation. — Ananya Chetia, CNBC, 21 Aug. 2026 For Apple Music, this is just the latest policy shift as the company looks to address AI and the concerns of fraud and streaming manipulation that comes with it. — Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 20 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for manipulation
  1. engineering
  2. management
  3. handling
  4. control
  5. operation
  6. administration
  7. government
  8. machination
Noun
  • Motorsport meets nuclear engineering Power conversion sits between the reactor and the electrical grid.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 2 Sep. 2026
  • The result has been a 47% year-on-year increase in engineering productivity, with teams able to work on five times more business features.
    — Dana Dunne, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of engineering
Noun
  • In addition to speech, our management of a localized fire for food, safety, and comfort is another uniquely human behavior, one that seems to have coincided with the development of complex spoken language.
    — Mike McRae September 02, New Atlas, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Shelley served as the Warriors’ associate general counsel and director of business and legal affairs and risk management, and Vasquez was the vice president of diversity, equity and inclusion.
    — Devon Henderson, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of management
Noun
  • Anil Thapa, a police inspector coordinating the handling of the bodies, said another 50 bodies were having DNA samples taken ahead of their likely burial Sunday.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 30 Aug. 2026
  • Park represents the Pacific Palisades, where residents have sharply criticized Bass over her handling of the Palisades fire, which destroyed thousands of homes and left 12 people dead.
    — Sandra McDonald, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of handling
Noun
  • Communities from Lansing, Michigan, to Pflugerville, Texas, are ending their relationship with Flock, largely over concerns regarding out-of-control surveillance, unwanted data sharing, high expenses, and reports of police abusing the tool.
    — Cyrus Farivar, ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2026
  • According to the sheriff's office, Awais used his property-management companies and his relationships with association board members to exert control over the organizations' operations and finances.
    — Chelsea Jones, CBS News, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of control
Noun
  • Chip manufacturing, testing, and packaging require massive amounts of water, while data center operation and cooling depend on stable power and water supplies.
    — , CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Following that crash, the FAA implemented permanent restrictions on helicopter operations around the airport.
    — Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of operation
Noun
  • Russian strikes in the Kyiv region damaged 14 warehouses, 16 private houses, three apartment buildings and 16 vehicles, Tymur Tkachenko, head of the Kyiv regional military administration, said Friday.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 28 Aug. 2026
  • The ruling marks a victory for Anthropic in its monthslong legal battle against the administration over its push to impose guardrails on its powerful AI model Claude, which is used by the military.
    — Joe Walsh, CBS News, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of administration
Noun
  • Adding insult to injury, the defections came even as GOP hard-liners were ready to paralyze the House over an unrelated dispute with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on funding the government.
    — Hailey Bullis, The Washington Examiner, 2 Sep. 2026
  • In a footnote to his dissent, Roberts wrote that the underground work on the project – which lower courts had allowed to proceed – addressed the government’s security concerns.
    — Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of government
Noun
  • The Heat are expected to carry only 14 players under standard contract at the start of their season, due to their position against the hard cap created by the machinations for the acquisition of Antetokounmpo.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Extrapolating from salacious and rumor-filled ancient sources, the novel offers an inside scoop into the machinations of the first Roman imperial family.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of machination

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“Manipulation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/manipulation. Accessed 4 Sep. 2026.

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