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The young man’s consent and the magnetic manipulation of a competent physician are sufficient for the transmigration.
URANIACAMILLE FLAMMARION
The several processes of swearing would seem however to supply the readiest hall-mark, and are rather of an easier manipulation.
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WORDS RELATED TO MANIPULATION
- accomplishment
- achievement
- act
- dealings
- doing
- effort
- enterprise
- execution
- exercise
- exertion
- exploit
- feat
- handiwork
- maneuver
- manipulation
- move
- operation
- performance
- procedure
- step
- stroke
- thrust
- transaction
- undertaking
- abetment
- agreement
- collaboration
- collusion
- complot
- concurrence
- confederacy
- connivance
- engineering
- guilt
- guiltiness
- implication
- intrigue
- involvement
- machination
- manipulation
- partnership
- care
- carrying-on
- channels
- charge
- control
- direction
- execution
- guidance
- handling
- intendance
- leadership
- management
- manipulation
- organization
- oversight
- plan
- policy
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- regulation
- rule
- running
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- superintendence
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- might
- oversight
- predomination
- qualification
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- restraint
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- rule
- strings
- subjection
- subordination
- superintendence
- supervision
- supremacy
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- upper hand
- weight
- wire pulling
- administration
- approach
- care
- charge
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- direction
- manipulation
- running
- styling
- superintendence
- supervision
- treatment
- artifice
- cabal
- chicanery
- collusion
- complication
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- contrivance
- deal
- design
- dodge
- double-dealing
- fix
- frame-up
- fraud
- game
- graft
- little game
- machination
- maneuver
- manipulation
- plan
- plot
- ruse
- stratagem
- trickery
- wile
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manipulation, usenoun
exerting shrewd or devious influence especially for one’s own advantage
«his manipulation of his friends was scandalous»
Synonyms:
usage, use, habit, handling, use of goods and services, consumption, usance, role, function, utilization, utilisation, employment, economic consumption, enjoyment, purpose, exercise -
handling, manipulationnoun
the action of touching with the hands (or the skillful use of the hands) or by the use of mechanical means
Synonyms:
treatment, use, handling
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Chloe Colliver:
We hope this is part of a process where civic society and tech companies can constructively engage in order to confront the manipulation of tech platforms.
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John Thomas Lawler:
She said his shoulders and back were out of line and by gentle manipulation, she could make his life much happier, she started on the shoulders and went around his body… Then the table dropped and he shouted Youre hurting me. You are hurting me. I cant feel my arms.
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Jonathan Macey:
For me, it’s impossible to imagine that Ackman is involved, if he had made up some lie about the company, he hasn’t profited from that, because he’s still short. In manipulation, at some point you’ve got to transact the security. Otherwise, there’s no point to it.
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Herbert Schiller:
For manipulation to be most effective, evidence of its presence should be nonexistent… It is essential, therefore, that people who are manipulated believe in the neutrality of their key social institutions.
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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi:
The Philippines’ stubbornness is clearly the result of behind-the-scene instigation and political manipulation.
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act, action, administration, appliance, approach, en.synonym.one, control, corner, deception, deed, doing, dominance, employment, execution, exercise, handling, machination, management, manoeuvre, monopoly, operation, play, ruse, stratagem, strategy, touching, en.synonym.one, treatment, use, utilisation, utilization.
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Pronunciation:
[ mənˌɪpjʊlˈe͡ɪʃən], [ mənˌɪpjʊlˈeɪʃən], [ m_ə_n_ˌɪ_p_j_ʊ_l_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]
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- artificial intelligence,
- batch,
- authentication,
- ABEND,
- alpha test,
- ai,
- A-D conversion,
- background processing,
- authoring,
- access time.
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- anaesthesia,
- artificial insemination,
- analgesia,
- Artificial Feeding,
- alternative medicine,
- acupuncture,
- aromatherapy,
- anesthesia,
- aftercare,
- acupressure.
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- wear,
- implementation,
- adoption.
• act (noun)
- use,
- manipulation.
• action (noun)
- enterprise,
- moves,
- step,
- enterprises.
• complicity (noun)
- guiltinesses.
• conduct (noun)
- intendances,
- in-tendance,
- over-sights,
- in tendance,
- over sight,
- super-visions,
- carrying ons,
- wieldings,
- over-sight,
- super-vision,
- over sights,
- super vision,
- in-tendances,
- in tendances,
- super visions.
• conspiracy (noun)
- complicity.
• control (noun)
- predomination,
- subjection,
- juice,
- restrictions,
- containments,
- containment,
- wire pulling.
• guidance (noun)
- administration,
- administration (of an estate),
- direction.
• handling (noun)
- stylings.
• intrigue (noun)
- frameups,
- doubledealing,
- frame ups,
- de-sign,
- frameup,
- de signs,
- little games,
- de-signs,
- de sign.
• legerdemain (noun)
- cunnings,
- Hocuspocus.
• management (noun)
- super intendency,
- superintendencies,
- super intendencies,
- super-intendencies,
- super-intendency.
• maneuver (noun)
- fancy footworks,
- curveballs.
• massage (noun)
- Rolfing,
- chirapsia,
- rubdown,
- rubbings,
- back rub,
- rubbing,
- rubbing-down.
• operation (noun)
- exercisings,
- pro-cesses,
- ballgames,
- pro cess,
- pro-cess.
• Other relevant words: (noun)
- massage,
- frame-up,
- exploitation,
- demarche,
- operation,
- Wielding,
- conduct,
- procedure,
- guiltiness,
- orchestration,
- action,
- transference,
- frame up,
- maneuver,
- intrigue,
- control,
- curveball,
- Double dealing,
- workmanship,
- fancy footwork,
- handling,
- intendance,
- little game,
- transferences,
- intrigues,
- frame-ups,
- application,
- complot,
- complots,
- monopoly,
- Superintendency,
- turned into,
- ballgame,
- touch,
- demarches,
- touching,
- management,
- influence.
• rubdown (noun)
- kneadings.
• touch (noun)
- palpation,
- tangibility,
- feeling,
- twiddle,
- Pawing,
- contact,
- Plying.
• treatment (noun)
- behavior towards,
- action towards.
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Other synonyms:
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- hush money,
- sop,
- kickback,
- bribe,
- gimmickry,
- bribery,
- baksheesh,
- psychological warfare.
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- decoy,
- special pleading,
- blackmail,
- lever,
- payola.
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- politics.
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- bait.
• Other relevant words:
- treatment.
• Other relevant words (noun):
- authority,
- move,
- finesse,
- care,
- plot,
- ordering,
- steerage,
- dealing,
- bestiality,
- Maneuvering,
- directing,
- trick,
- onanism,
- agency,
- bear raid,
- conducting,
- finagling,
- Plotting,
- stewardship,
- exercise,
- supervision,
- working,
- wirepulling,
- manoeuver,
- analysis,
- corrective action,
- behaviour,
- directorship,
- governance,
- using,
- contrivance,
- performance,
- consumption,
- conspiracy,
- Underplot,
- engineering,
- habit,
- manipulate,
- processing,
- buggery,
- counterplot,
- fingering,
- Manoeuvring,
- stratagem,
- instruction,
- role,
- husbandry,
- career,
- contrectation,
- scheming,
- maneuvers,
- raid,
- expedient,
- self-abuse,
- driving,
- workings,
- accounting,
- pederasty,
- lead,
- ruse,
- cunnilingus,
- design,
- hand job,
- computation,
- responsibility,
- behind-the-scenes influence,
- manipulations,
- forecast,
- irrumation,
- life,
- aim,
- missile guidance,
- occupation,
- bull raid,
- ploy,
- corner,
- scheme,
- operating,
- running,
- devices,
- machination,
- deception,
- charge,
- palpability,
- usance,
- custom,
- captaincy,
- fellatio,
- rub down,
- Wash sale,
- record keeping,
- rub,
- frottage,
- utilisation,
- Instructing,
- tact,
- gambit,
- dirty trick,
- autoeroticism,
- tactic,
- friction,
- leadership,
- functioning,
- tactility,
- work,
- conniving,
- governing,
- Contriving,
- Aiming,
- performing,
- automatic electronic navigation,
- artifice,
- utilization,
- manoeuvre,
- collusion,
- Manipulating,
- reception,
- record,
- inspection,
- leading,
- Taction,
- expedients,
- Covin,
- forecasts,
- trickery,
- rule,
- masturbation,
- coordination,
- abuse,
- guidance,
- plan,
- campaign,
- enjoyment,
- Kneading,
- tactics,
- course,
- mind,
- stroking,
- designs,
- Fielding,
- petting,
- caressing,
- washing,
- cabal,
- purpose,
- employment,
- regulation,
- braking,
- Administering,
- designing,
- directorate,
- superintendence,
- game,
- sodomy,
- economic consumption,
- practises,
- rigging,
- pointing,
- steering,
- legerdemain,
- Managery,
- pressure,
- command,
- Managing,
- supervising,
- usage,
- government,
- execution,
- fellation,
- Wire-pulling,
- Operancy,
- guiding,
- connivance,
- pilotage,
- wile,
- race,
- Higgling,
- walk,
- device,
- practice,
- intriguing,
- function,
- confederacy,
- drill.
How to use «Manipulation» in context?
At its most basic definition, manipulation is the use of psychological techniques to change someone’s attitudes, beliefs or behavior. Manipulative people typically use these techniques with the goal of achieving their own goals, often without regard for the other person.
While manipulation can occur in any relationship, it is often most harmful in intimate ones. In these settings, a manipulative person can use their power over their partner to control them, often fomenting fear and insecurity in order to boost their own ego.
Manipulative people can be difficult to spot, partly because they often act in ways that are either subtle or even unnoticeable.
Paraphrases for Manipulation:
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Independent
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Proper noun, singular
handling.
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Noun, singular or mass
control, engineering, handling, intervention, manoeuvre, misuse, modulation, operation, ploy, processing, treatment, utilization, Maneuvering, takes, interventions.
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Proper noun, singular
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Proper noun, singular
Manipulating.
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Noun, singular or mass
deception, exploitation, interference, maneuver, modification, rigging, tampering, Manoeuvring, instrumentalization, instrumentalisation.
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Proper noun, singular
Hyponym for Manipulation:
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act
influence.
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act