manipulate

Definition:
1. Influence or control shrewdly or deviously.
2. Hold something in one's hands and move it.
3. Fake or falsify.
4. Manipulate in a fraudulent manner.

Use 'manipulate' in a sentence:

• 1. I hate the way he manipulates people.
• 2. The way he can manipulate my leg has helped my arthritis so much.
• 3. We may be on the verge of a new era, when the PC will get up off the desktop and allow us to see, hear, touch and manipulate objects in places where we are not physically present.
• 4. Scientists would soon be able to manipulate human genes to control the aging process.
• 5. And why music can manipulate our emotions.
• 6. It looks to me like one more example of trying to manipulate people into taking care of themselves.
• 7. The history of human civilisation is entwined with the history of the ways we have learned to manipulate water resources.
• 8. Police and prosecutors manipulated the eyewitnesses so they would finger Aldo.
• 9. Culture is not something you manipulate easily.
• 10. Mediation flows can now manipulate SOAP headers.
• 11. Macdonald accepted that such information could be used to manipulate, to obfuscate, and to mislead.
• 12. Not trying to change or manipulate them.
• 13. Conceptual models represent and manipulate ideas.
• 14. The puppets are expertly manipulated by Liz Walker.
• 15. The relatively new discipline of molecular gastronomy, especially, relies on understanding the mechanics of aroma to manipulate flavor for maximum impact.
• 16. Do you know how to manipulate a computer?
• 17. You should never directly manipulate these tables.
• 18. If you're too concerned with outcomes to the extent that you manipulate and intimidate others to achieve those outcomes, then you aren't leading at all, you're dictating.
• 19. We don't have the strength of chimpanzees because we've given up animal strength to manipulate subtle instruments, like hammers, spears, and later pens and pencils.
• 20. She uses her charm to manipulate people.
• 21. The police force is being manipulated for political ends.
• 22. Manipulate the session data.
• 23. They managed to manipulate us into agreeing to help.
• 24. You can write programs that manipulate them.
• 25. They want to gain influence and manipulate.
• 26. cheat in accounting, manipulate financial records.
• 27. He is a very difficult character. He manipulates people.
• 28. Their research thus implies a different character model, which is supposed to manipulate the neural networks inside.
• 29. The designer and the inventor are able to assemble and manipulate in their minds devices that as yet do not exist.
• 30. In fact, he offers descriptions of how restaurants and food makers manipulate ingredients to reach the aptly named bliss point.
• 31. Studio bosses could also force bad roles on actors, and manipulate every single detail of, stars' images with their mammoth in-house publicity departments.
• 32. To test this hypothesis, researchers raised lobsters in the juvenile fourth and fifth stages of development in a laboratory environment in which the lobsters could manipulate oyster chips.
• 33. maintain, and manipulate the database to produce the relevant management information.
• 34. I firmly believe our strategy is being deliberately, cynically manipulated.
• 35. First coined in 2010 by user experience expert Harry Brignull, "dark patterns" is a catch-all term for practices that manipulate user interfaces to influence the decision-making ability of users.
• 36. As a politician, he knows how to manipulate public opinion.
• 37. usually organized in files that can be retrieved and manipulated to produce information.
• 38. Over the nine-month duration of the experiment, the youngsters did indeed learn how to manipulate the joystick and buttons.
• 39. Intelligence seeks to grasp, manipulate, re-order, and adjust, while intellect examines, ponders, wonders, theorizes, criticizes and imagines.
• 40. She was unable, for once, to control and manipulate events.
• 41. Two sides almost never change: that you can manipulate people into self-sufficiency and that you can punish them into good citizenship.
• 42. He manipulates people and tries to bend them to his will.
• 43. Scientists would soon be able to manipulate human genes to control the ageing process.
• 44. The technology uses a pen to manipulate a computer.
• 45. Quotes can be manipulated and used out of context.
• 46. Primitive man quickly learned how to manipulate tools.
• 47. The treasurer was arrested for trying to manipulate the company's financial records.