- present participle of manipulate.
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
Once that happens, it’s a short step to manipulating the law to accommodate a desire.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
By cooling and manipulating these atoms, scientists can entangle them and perform highly precise computations.
From Barron's • May 20, 2026
In 2026, another team reported an integrated photonic chip capable of generating, manipulating, and measuring multipartite cluster state entanglement on a single device.
From Science Daily • May 13, 2026
By uniting the small power of small sums, by skillfully manipulating it, they could achieve a consolidated financial power.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
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