manipulation

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Noun
  • Among nearly 400 respondents, 70% were pursuing degrees in engineering or computer science.
    Dayna L. Martinez, The Orlando Sentinel, 7 June 2025
  • The speed limit can be raised if the highway is deemed safe and reasonable after a traffic or engineering study.
    Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • Adopt inventory management software and real-time tracking tools that offer clear visibility across all channels, helping to minimize overselling, underselling and stock discrepancies.
    Adam Ayers, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025
  • To inform more residents, the emergency management team posts on social media with information around the weather.
    Taylor O’Connor, Kansas City Star, 3 June 2025
Noun
  • Santa Ono drew criticism from both pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel camps in Michigan over his handling of the protests.
    Philissa Cramer, Sun Sentinel, 4 June 2025
  • Individual polls show that Americans remain sharply divided over Trump's handling of the economy during his second term.
    Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 June 2025
Noun
  • The water pressure then causes the vehicle to rise and slide on a thin layer of water between the tires and the road, making the driver lose control.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 6 June 2025
  • Swift’s management of her career has been touted as a model to reduce the structural inefficiencies in music licensing and broadcasting, to promote equity sharing with record labels, and to give artists in general more control over their creative work.
    Time, Time, 5 June 2025
Noun
  • This requires establishing formal mechanisms for collaboration between sales, marketing, operations, supply chain, finance and product development.
    Luigi Damasceno, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
  • In a small number of cases, children were evacuated without parental or family consent, fueling debate over the ethics of the operation.
    Jim Axelrod June 9, CBS News, 9 June 2025
Noun
  • The Trump administration’s tough stance on the budget and waste reduction will place Smith in a challenging position, leading an organization that acknowledges the need for reform but lacks the drive to implement it.
    Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
  • The Tesla and SpaceX CEO spent the past four months leading the administration's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which set out to slash government bloat and eliminate waste, fraud and abuse.
    Joey Garrison, USA Today, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • This web of nonprofit shelters, street outreach organizations and other service providers works in coordination with funding from the city, the state, private philanthropy and, to a large extent, the federal government.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 1 June 2025
  • The federal government often picks up the entire bill in big disasters and most of it in smaller ones.
    Seth Borenstein, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2025
Noun
  • Thus the movie’s financial and martial machinations take place within a more elemental family drama: in order to win his daughter’s allegiance and affection, Zsa-zsa must pursue a mock-Shakespearean plot of fratricidal revenge.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 29 May 2025
  • But her machinations also serve as an extreme example of complicity against which Pabst’s more subtly evolving behavior can be measured.
    Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 6 May 2025
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“Manipulation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/manipulation. Accessed 15 Jun. 2025.

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