manipulation

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Noun
  • Many organizations don't have the engineering resources to deploy these tests at scale.
    Rahul Wankhede, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
  • According to Porter, the most in-demand and future-proof skills are cybersecurity, data analytics, software engineering, and artificial intelligence.
    Vicki Salemi, Boston Herald, 25 May 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Representatives of the property management company milled a block away holding drills.
    Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 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
  • According to the agencies, the GRU hackers also carried out reconnaissance of the network of at least one producer of industrial control system components for railway systems—suggesting a possible intention to attempt sabotage—but didn’t actually succeed in breaching the company.
    Andy Greenberg, Wired News, 24 May 2025
  • However, his potential control over the Vatican Bank raises important questions about FBAR filing duties.
    Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025
Noun
  • On top of that, a series of radar and radio outages prompted the Federal Aviation Administration to further reduce the number of flight operations at the airport, partly because a handful of controllers took trauma leave after briefly losing contact with planes in April.
    Zach Wichter, USA Today, 29 May 2025
  • Those efforts didn’t stop gamblers like Lefty Rosenthal from running underground bookmaking operations using the technology of the time: long-distance phone lines.
    Austin Meek, New York Times, 29 May 2025
Noun
  • As for the main part of the package, the administration will try to claim victory for the working class on the basis of the fulfillment of Trump’s promise to axe taxes on tips and overtime.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 25 May 2025
  • Emanuel was most notably chief of staff for former President Barack Obama from 2008-2010, as well as serving as an adviser in former President Bill Clinton’s administration and as mayor of Chicago for eight years.
    Zach LaChance, The Washington Examiner, 25 May 2025
Noun
  • The legislative measure failed, but the Canadian courts issued a ruling in favor of youth climate litigants alleging government responsibility for climate change impacts.
    Monica Sanders, Forbes.com, 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 7 Jun. 2025.

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