manipulation
/məˌnɪp.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/ noun C1- The practice of manipulating or the state of being manipulated. · The dealer's manipulations could have removed cards from the deck.
- The skillful use of the hands in, for example, chiropractic. · After a few minutes of manipulation each week, she obtained days of relief from her neck pain.
- The usage of psychological influence over a person, event, or situation to gain a desired outcome. · The counselor was able to reach the disturbed teen through positive psychological manipulation.· Through subtle manipulations he orchestrated the downfall of his rival.
Plural manipulations
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Totally disregarding the business of the stage, he leaned from his box and began attentively scrutinizing the beauty of each pretty woman, aided by a powerful opera-glass; but, alas, this attempt to attract notice wholly failed; not even curiosity had been excited, and it was but too apparent that the lovely creatures, into whose good graces he was desirous of stealing, were all so much engrossed with themselves, their lovers, or their own thoughts, that they had not so much as noticed him or the manipulation of his glass.
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