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Thus, when his mother started reading child psychology books to better understand a young Del Toro, he read them as well, so that he could try to manipulate her.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

"Who are we allowing to feed into us and manipulate what media we consume, which bubbles we're in?" she continued.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

"I'm more able to feel like trying to have integrity and not manipulate and be ruthless."

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

Writers can manipulate our emotions in direct ways; they can conjure extreme scenarios that we are hardwired to react to.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

And Hamilton did what he had unofficially implied he would do all along: manipulate the numbers to make the Virginians more comfortable with assumption.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

Amazing the way he's gifted with the ball, the way he manipulates the ball, and also the way he's able to think for himself.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

In an interview with the Shade Room last year, Knight’s son, Shanga Hankerson, claimed McDowell pushed the singer into performing and manipulates her.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026

A well-read person grows body armor against the rigid conspiracy theorist, against flat artificial intelligence that manipulates without emotion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

He manipulates the physical form of the ingredient to showcase different temperatures and textures: souffle, cream, biscuit, foam, and air.

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026

A writer, like a cinematographer, manipulates the viewer’s perspective on an ongoing story, with the verbal equivalent of camera angles and quick cuts. the marital, the medical, and sometimes both at once.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

For example, one Georgia ad included the disclaimer, “This video has been manipulated or generated with artificial intelligence,” while an Oklahoma ad said, “Political satire. AI-generated images do not depict actual events.”

From Salon ● Oct. 6, 2026

The sham thrust to the forefront a growing problem: Law enforcement agencies across the country increasingly are receiving photos and other evidence that’s been manipulated or wholly generated with artificial intelligence, experts say.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

It’s hard to raise the subject of bad actors and scammers without the elderly parent or grandparent feeling like they are in some way easily manipulated.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

But he devotes considerable attention to how Native Americans manipulated and frequently triumphed over colonists.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

I stepped aside to avoid walking into the thread with which his girl assistant manipulated the boxers.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

The Court of Appeal has quashed the conviction of Christian Bittar, a former Deutsche Bank trader who went to prison in 2018 for "manipulating" the benchmark interest rate, Euribor.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

That is where I try to land at the end: We’re not going to solve this problem by manipulating the chatbots.

From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026

Fielder finds himself drawn from behind the camera into the story, struggling to determine whether Holmes and Evans are being candid with him or manipulating him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

These low-energy light particles are especially useful for manipulating quantum information and are already central to leading superconducting-qubit technology.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026

“And, yes, manipulating those proteins is the key to my research.”

From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein