manipulation

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Noun
  • When a developer's credentials were used to launch a resource in an unfamiliar region at an unusual hour, the system automatically revoked the session and sent an alert to the security engineering team.
    Chris Bowen, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
  • In 1967, Saroja Devi married Sri Harsha, an engineering contractor.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 14 July 2025
Noun
  • Girls may, for example, struggle with time management, daydreaming or being a chatterbox and are more likely to be diagnosed with the primarily inattentive type of ADHD over the hyperactive type.
    Daliah Singer, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 July 2025
  • Emotional intelligence and the soft skills necessary to inspire hope are often seen as part of culture or talent management, rather than leveraged as strategic assets.
    Camille Nicita, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
Noun
  • Several after-action reports from the massive protests in 2020 found glaring problems in the department’s handling of the demonstrations, concluding that poor planning, inadequate training and inconsistent leadership within the department contributed to disorder in the streets.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2025
  • Instead of making plans on the fly as the fire burned, agencies had already planned out specifics for the smooth handling of communications, evacuation plans and resources that would need to be called in.
    Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • As air boss of the USS Midway, Jumper guided scores of evacuation helicopters onto the aircraft carrier’s deck during a chaotic, hair-raising 30-hour period in April 1975, as North Vietnamese forces were taking control of Saigon.
    Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2025
  • If the Supreme Court grants Trump control over the NLRB, said Calemine of the AFL-CIO, workers will be the ones who suffer.
    Gabriel Thompson, USA Today, 11 July 2025
Noun
  • The new group is expected to retain at least some of the Rays’ upper management team as well as the core of the baseball operations department.
    Marc Topkin, The Orlando Sentinel, 15 July 2025
  • That's because the initial yield of NASA's Kepler space telescope, which discovered nearly 3,000 planets in its nine years of operation, relied on worlds transiting — passing between their star and Earth.
    Nola Taylor Tillman, Space.com, 15 July 2025
Noun
  • The administration claimed that Abrego Garcia was in the MS-13 gang, although he wasn't charged and has repeatedly denied the accusation.
    arkansasonline.com, arkansasonline.com, 12 July 2025
  • Laing emphasized that the Gloria administration had adopted many reforms to ensure that past city real-estate mistakes would not be repeated.
    U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 July 2025
Noun
  • The president continued posting similar letters to other foreign heads of government from Europe, Asia and Africa throughout the day, imposing the steepest tariff rates of 40% on Myanmar and Laos.
    Alison Durkee, Forbes.com, 7 July 2025
  • Civic education needs to be embraced and encouraged in families and civic associations and by government and other leaders in our society.
    Hans Zeiger, The Orlando Sentinel, 7 July 2025
Noun
  • Dell, meanwhile, loses her chance at knowing who killed her mother, due to the sheriff’s machinations.
    Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 27 June 2025
  • But the machinations for the Heat assuredly are ongoing.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 25 June 2025
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“Manipulation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/manipulation. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.

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