manipulation
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- noun
- /məˌnɪpjuˈleɪʃən/
:
manipulación
- His manipulation of the group dynamics allowed him to control the outcome of the discussion.
- psychological manipulation
- susceptible to manipulation
- political manipulation
Trying to avoid harm doesn't sound like manipulation, it sounds like survival.
- Trying to avoid harm doesn't sound like manipulation, it sounds like survival.
- I think she did that as a tool of manipulation, which you need.
- They're already a dark science of mental manipulation that has no bottom.
- If then that goes to emotional manipulation, say you're not responding to that.
- I mean toxic is like manipulation and control and.
- It is based on emotional manipulation and emotional blackmail.
- It shows up as devaluation, dismissiveness, manipulation, gaslighting.
- He's been arrested on federal marketeering fraud and market manipulation charges, which is bad.
- Amy, do you use sleep deprivation and mental manipulation as as is being said here?
- I felt like I was so distracted by love, by toxicity, by manipulation like that.
- I just don't see particularly lowering the risk of manipulation and fraud.
- So I would not have suspected the kind of dopaminergic manipulation that social media does.
- The Labed case led to questions about the scope of stock market manipulation prohibitions.
- And obviously there's like the manipulation going on with JoJo too.
Examples
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It's that manipulation, that balance of power that made me wanna become a lawyer.
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She used emotional manipulation to gain sympathy from her friends.
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Brilliant strategy, but that kind of manipulation makes me very angry.
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Of course, if society were better informed, such manipulation would prove to be more difficult.
Academic text (1999) -
The music is equally subject to manipulation, as are the relations between music and image.
Academic text (2017) -
The claim that AIDS was a product of DNA manipulation was not supported by evidence.
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When the market does overwhelm the manipulation, it comes as a crisis.
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The population is always threatened by the manipulation of institutions and the ideologies put in place.
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I've met with the mayor and I told him how we could take this city to new heights through genetic manipulation.
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The lawyer's manipulation of the facts misled the jury during the trial.
Synonyms
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An action that makes someone believe something not true
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Dishonest action meant to trick someone
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4.9
To use dishonest ways to cheat people
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Secret dishonest actions that harm or make someone look bad, often in politics and business
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Tricks people use to deceive others to get money or advantage
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Strong pressure from someone to make you do something
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Making facts or numbers seem better than they are
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A trick to confuse or upset someone
A plan to control people by tricking them
A clever, hidden way to persuade someone by making them think or feel differently
Dishonest actions that try to trick people
Cheating people to get their money or an advantage
Antonyms
How Controlling
- Offensive
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Surface Forms
Morphology
manipulation = manipulate (semi-transparent) = manipulate + ion
The noun is formed regularly from the verb 'manipulate', but the dishonest nuance is a conventional semantic specialization rather than a fully predictable meaning.
Etymology
Manipulation comes from the Latin manus meaning 'hand', and the same root appears in manual ('done by hand'). A helpful way to remember is to imagine someone 'handling' people like pieces on a board, which explains why manipulation means controlling or influencing someone in a clever or unfair way.