manipulative

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Examples of practices it would clamp down on included sites using any technique which inserted "manipulative" pages into a user's browser history that stopped them from returning to the previous page.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

The manipulative Jean, meanwhile, counsels both young women and has cast Mary in the role of her substitute daughter.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Imagine if, in “Evita,” audiences members were invited to sing back up on the balcony as Eva Perón belts out “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina,” accompanying her in her last manipulative hurrah.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2026

That’s manipulative and, given that you are now divorced, this seems like another way to have a financial and/or emotional hold over you.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 19, 2026

The Nazis accorded music considerable esteem, hoping to shape the course of musical history by manipulative policies affecting the production and reception of music across the vast territories they eventually controlled.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall