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Example sentences for: manipulate

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(It can't act to manipulate interest rates, since rates are already near zero.)
The movie tells two interlocking stories: The first is about Jeffrey Wigand (Russell Crowe), former vice president for research and development at the Brown & Williamson tobacco company, who is persuaded to go public with revelations about how cigarette manufacturers manipulate the chemicals in their product for maximum addictiveness.
Needless to say, success, in such cases, hinges on the ad maker's ability to manipulate that fine line between the familiar and the clichéd: It's all in the adaptation.
Think about how politicians manipulate discussions of issues.
One can manipulate the z-values as if they were conventional z-scores.