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

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

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

Contacted over Discord, Scout denied manipulating markets or trying to swing votes to reach blatantly wrong conclusions.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

Instead of simply cooling the atoms, they proposed manipulating the vacuum itself by creating "squeezed states," quantum states in which position and velocity behave in unusual ways.

From Science Daily • May 18, 2026

His hands were in the air, artfully manipulating strings.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack