manipulate
verb (used with object)
to manage or influence skillfully, especially in an unfair manner.
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The film shows a Harriet Breen who trades shrewdly in wheat and railroads, endeavors to outmanipulate a wheat-&-rail speculator who has ruined her husband.
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