were manipulating
- past progressive of manipulate.
Example Sentences
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With “facilitated communication,” parents were convinced they were liberating the trapped thoughts of their autistic children through a keyboard, unaware they were manipulating their children’s hands.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025
In all, they found more than 3100 parasite genes with increased expression while they were manipulating their hosts.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 19, 2023
The 36-year-old securities law specialist has become an increasingly influential figure in the hot debate over activist short selling since publishing a 2018 analysis of trading data that suggested some players were manipulating the market.
From Reuters ● Mar. 18, 2022
"It felt as thought there was somebody in the depths of an office block, the lights dimmed, and they were at a Horizon terminal and they were manipulating the figures."
From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2022
From the way they were manipulating these tools it was evident they intended making use of them, and on the spot!
From The Fatal Cord And The Falcon Rover by Reid, Mayne
