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/mənˌɪpjʊlˈeɪʃən/
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[ US /məˌnɪpjəˈɫeɪʃən/ ]
[ US /məˌnɪpjəˈɫeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
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exerting shrewd or devious influence especially for one's own advantage
his manipulation of his friends was scandalous - the action of touching with the hands (or the skillful use of the hands) or by the use of mechanical means
How To Use manipulation In A Sentence
- All this seems to contradict the expectation of the manipulation theorists.
- Dishonesty is always one way of climbing the ladder of success, but dishonest intentions and manipulations are more prone to fail. Dr T.P.Chia
- It's just that when you put it all together, it amounts to a manipulation.
- The rapture effected by an aesthetic of the sublime is often more persuasive than any rational argument in its direct exploitation and manipulation of the audience's sense of actualities, possibilities, ethical duties and emotional affinities/antipathies. On the Sublime
- Would you be "boggled" if I suggest that the characterisation of blacks here as a mob of rampaging gang-rapists is a product of prejudice and, in its emotional manipulation, serves to reinforce prejudice? Wisdom, Justice And Mercy
- It is also the outcome of the calculated political manipulation of the contest for the Democratic presidential nomination.
- Political discourse, in this view, is full of manipulation, deception, and untruths whose object is political advantage.
- The ordinary manipulation of the shoulder can be accomplished with the patient lying down; but if special conditions, such as articular stiffening, call for unusual care or unusual force, it will be found best to treat the shoulder with the patient seated. Fat and Blood An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria
- When in a position allowing of direct examination, the contused portion of the nerve sometimes developed a palpable fusiform thickening, manipulation of which might give rise to formication in the area of distribution -- a favourable prognostic sign. Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre
- The classical economist Von Hayek, who authored On the road to serfdom, warned about such interference by government in the economic order which can culminate the unbridle manipulation and pollution of the economic system. Emerging economies must reject handouts and bailouts capitalism
