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UK
/mənˈɪpjʊlˌeɪt/
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[ US /məˈnɪpjəˌɫeɪt/ ]
[ US /məˈnɪpjəˌɫeɪt/ ]
VERB
- treat manually, as with massage, for therapeutic purposed
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manipulate in a fraudulent manner
rig prices -
tamper, with the purpose of deception
falsify the data
cook the books
Fudge the figures -
maintain influence over (others or oneself) skillfully, usually to one's advantage
She manipulates her boss
The teacher knew how to keep the class in line
she keeps in line
She is a very controlling mother and doesn't let her children grow up -
influence or control shrewdly or deviously
He manipulated public opinion in his favor - hold something in one's hands and move it
How To Use manipulate In A Sentence
- She knew now how attractive Miguel could be when he wanted to be, and she knew he could manipulate her feelings.
- Both these people have lied and manipulated people through the press to believe one facade after another in order to get whatever it is they want…
- Its political culture, once fiercely democratic, is being eroded by a manipulated, bureaucratic legalism that identifies dissent as disloyalty.
- I think we have to distinguish those narratives which crudely manipulate fear or repulsion and disgust from that which Lovecraft correctly calls ‘the weird tale’.
- I unconsciously manipulate situations to my advantage
- Rowe said Jackson was a man being manipulated by opportunists, who kept information from him and wanted to milk millions of dollars out of him.
- Likewise, a few citation errors in the IPCC report were trumpeted as the final nails in the coffin for the climate movement, despite the fact that not a single investigation even those in which climate skeptics have participated has found any evidence thatscientists "fudged,""manipulated" or "manufactured" data, and the fundamental conclusions of the IPCC still stand. Kelly Rigg: The Movement with a Thousand Faces
- The development of western civilization is predicated on the ambition to achieve mastery over nature and to manipulate it unrestrictedly.
- To manipulate religious conviction into a political commodity is a contemporary form of simony.
- People who are emotionally needy or manipulate others to get their own way by making them feeling guilty are unconscious vampires.