Example Sentences

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As tech titans invest in cryogenic freezing and stem cell therapies to live forever, my peers are manipulating their faces to deny their own mortality.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026

From fabricated data to purchased authorships and paid citations, researchers say organized groups are manipulating the academic publishing system.

From Science Daily • Mar. 7, 2026

“There's an ability to somehow excise humanity from the equation that is interesting, where there's no consideration of the people that are manipulating to achieve whatever they want to do,” he observed.

From Salon • Nov. 29, 2023

Chemists are exploring how phosphates managed to season the prebiotic broth that gave rise to life in the first place, while materials scientists are manipulating the element into startling new colors and forms.

From New York Times • Nov. 4, 2022

When people are manipulating you, telling you to buy this perfume and you’ll be beautiful, or this pair of jeans and you’ll be sexy—and you believe them!

From "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom