manipulative
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“He was a very manipulative man,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
Erika is manipulative and selfish; Elliot doesn’t respect her boundaries either.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
According to TikTok’s community guidelines, the platform bans accounts engaging in deceptive or manipulative activity or discrimination.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
He described Singh's serial offending between February 1983 and May 2018 as "calculated and manipulative".
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
From the very first day, Father saw Dr. Lange for the manipulative and evil human being he was.
From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys
“Kids should be outside, they should be playing, they should be using manipulatives and tactiles.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2026
I could suggest ways of bringing manipulatives to traditional paper and pencil mathematics.
From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2020
This philosophy--championed most famously by the Swiss developmental psychologist Jean Piaget--explains the near ubiquity of counting rods and beads, known in academic circles as manipulatives, in most grade-school classrooms.
From Time Magazine Archive
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