Noun: manipulation
| Singular | manipulation |
| Plural | manipulations |
Sample Sentences
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The dealer's manipulations could have removed cards from the deck.
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The rear portion of the tender top is flat and open so as to facilitate the manipulation of the water crane. [1956 April, “"Merchant Navy" Class Pacific Modified”, in Railway Magazine, page 212:]
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After a few minutes of manipulation each week, she obtained days of relief from her neck pain.
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The counselor was able to reach the disturbed teen through positive psychological manipulation.
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Through subtle manipulations he orchestrated the downfall of his rival.
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A dormant and defunded CPB could have become vulnerable to future political manipulation or misuse, threatening the independence of public media and the trust audiences place in it, and potentially subjecting staff and board members to legal exposure from bad-faith actors.” [2026 January 5, Michael Schneider, “Corporation for Public Broadcasting to Shut Down After 58 Years Due to Trump Eliminating Funding”, in Variety, archived from the original on 07 Jan 2026:]
Nouns inflected like manipulation
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French manipulation, from Old French manipule, from Latin manipulus. Morphologically manipulate + -ion. See: French Nouns '
manipulation', Latin Nouns '
manipulus'.