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manipulation

[muh-nip-yuh-ley-shuhn] / məˌnɪp jəˈleɪ ʃən /


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"Nothing presented shows evidence of any vote manipulation," Charles Stewart, an elections expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told AFP.

From Barron's Jul. 17, 2026

Culture betting has already produced instances of accused market manipulation.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 15, 2026

Norway, by contrast, after the discovery of North Sea oil in the 1970s, set up a sovereign-wealth fund through a trust structure independent of central government and thus immunized against political manipulation.

From MarketWatch Jul. 6, 2026

Separately, three large egg producers have agreed to donate more than 50 million eggs to food banks and pay $3.3 million to settle claims of market manipulation that antitrust authorities said kept prices high.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 30, 2026

The manipulation of the appropriate mechanisms should be self-explanatory, and we need not dwell on it here.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

The figure shows that over 80% of hourly workers and 30% of salaried workers could benefit from the manipulations.

From MarketWatch Jun. 4, 2026

Future studies will also use targeted manipulations of brain circuits to better understand the causal relationship between neural pathways and memory function.

From Science Daily May 30, 2026

Muddy Waters has accused the company of accounting manipulation partly to benefit its chief executive, claiming that “without these manipulations, CEO Noto would lose most—if not all—of his performance bonus.”

From Barron's Mar. 18, 2026

We at least don’t have to guess about the efficacy of their manipulations.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 28, 2025

I promised he was going to be able to walk away from the Court and all its manipulations.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black




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