manipulating

Example Sentences

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Instead, the black shiny faceless Phantom robot is engaged in "free play", manipulating a bunch of coloured kids blocks.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

The researchers believe manipulating the surrounding environment of these materials could provide a new way to improve their capabilities and increase efficiency in future electronics.

From Science Daily • May 29, 2026

By cooling and manipulating these atoms, scientists can entangle them and perform highly precise computations.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

As tech titans invest in cryogenic freezing and stem cell therapies to live forever, my peers are manipulating their faces to deny their own mortality.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026

The poems I wrote were mostly about finding rhymes to put on the ends of sentences, but I liked manipulating words, and I was doing it on a more-or-less regular basis.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers