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Recent Examples of manipulative
While these issues are distressing, a much larger problem looms: the proliferation of anti-competitive, discriminatory and manipulative AI behavior that will interfere with all of our lives.
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Ozan Ozerk, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
Soon she becomes ensnared in a relationship with a manipulative law student named Sidney, who helps Annie change her name and lies to her, telling her that Amanda is dead.
—Nina Lacour, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2025
That is passive aggressive and perhaps even manipulative, Hendrix says, and certainly not part of a healthy relationship.
—Jenny McCoy, Glamour, 10 Jan. 2025
Slaveholders, in their experience, were manipulative and violent.
—Monti Datta, The Conversation, 9 Jan. 2025
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Ozan Ozerk, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
Soon she becomes ensnared in a relationship with a manipulative law student named Sidney, who helps Annie change her name and lies to her, telling her that Amanda is dead.
—Nina Lacour, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2025
That is passive aggressive and perhaps even manipulative, Hendrix says, and certainly not part of a healthy relationship.
—Jenny McCoy, Glamour, 10 Jan. 2025
Slaveholders, in their experience, were manipulative and violent.
—Monti Datta, The Conversation, 9 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for manipulative
Adjective
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Whenever Carolyn’s name has come up in passing as a possible Traitor, it has been immediately nixed, with folks unable to believe that the Survivor finalist could ever pull off being so deceptive.—
Dalton Ross,
EW.com,
3 Feb. 2025
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However, there’s also a darker side — beware of deceptive words or misleading information.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
28 Jan. 2025
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The governor needs to stop being deceitful with the people’s money and prioritize services that impact everyday Californians’ lives.—
Alexandra Macedo,
Orange County Register,
16 Jan. 2025
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The film followed the release of the 2012 book about a deceitful disappearance by Gillian Flynn.—
Becca Longmire,
People.com,
31 Dec. 2024
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Jamie Bernstein considers the attitude hypocritical.—
Miguel Sirgado,
Miami Herald,
6 Jan. 2025
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There are several moments in which Stewart comes off as hypocritical and lacking self-awareness.—
Meredith Blake,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Oct. 2024
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The report warns that as state leaders become increasingly dependent on information technology and connectivity to operate their government, hackers have more opportunities to penetrate their systems and work their devious schemes.—
Editorial,
Boston Herald,
1 Feb. 2025
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When a predator descends to snack on the spider, it is met instead with the jaws of the devious snake.—
Ryley Graham,
Smithsonian Magazine,
29 Jan. 2025
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There are 12 zodiac animals in Chinese astrology, and people born in the year of the snake are considered intelligent, strategic, and cunning deep thinkers.—
Michael Khouw,
CNBC,
30 Jan. 2025
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Coyotes often mate for life and are good parents, a contradiction to popular culture’s idea of the desert wolf as mischievous and cunning villain.—
Jaclyn Cosgrove,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Jan. 2025
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Workers reported bent rafters, crooked columns and snapped cables before the building collapsed, according to OSHA.—
Nick Rosenberger,
Idaho Statesman,
31 Jan. 2025
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The larger-than-life writer-director plays the dupe, an Irish sailor who falls head over heels in confounded lust for Elsa (Hayworth), the enigmatic wife of a crooked lawyer (Everett Sloane), recently arrived in New York from Shanghai.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
22 Jan. 2025
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Question 300 supporters accuse the anti-marijuana majority on the council of using baldly underhanded tactics to thwart the will of the voters in this city of nearly half a million people.—
John Aguilar,
The Denver Post,
19 Jan. 2025
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The Trump team’s efforts to crush dissent range from public-media campaigns targeting vulnerable senators in conservative states (and paid for by unelected billionaires) to more underhanded tactics aimed at intimidating and discrediting potentially hostile witnesses.—
Jane Mayer,
The New Yorker,
14 Jan. 2025
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Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy get revenge on two scheming executives.—
AJ Willingham,
CNN,
23 Dec. 2022
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Four young soccer superfans team up to help their idols regain their abilities after a scheming evil scientist steals their talent.—
Rodney Ho,
ajc,
6 Nov. 2022
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“Manipulative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/manipulative. Accessed 7 Feb. 2025.
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