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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Possible to manipulate.

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  • adjective Suitable for, or able to be subjected to manipulation.
  • adjective Gullible or susceptible to persuasion.

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  • adjective easily managed (controlled or taught or molded)

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Examples

  • Equally so Gareth Porter who tossed around turns like "manipulable" to explain why Barack's acting like a War Hawk.

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  • Equally so Gareth Porter who tossed around turns like "manipulable" to explain why Barack's acting like a War Hawk.

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  • "manipulable" into an affair, most of us just roll our eyes and look the other way.

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  • The problem in America is that there is too many manipulable ignorants that cannot think rationaly.

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  • Earlier this year, Nespresso released its "Citiz" line, a minimalist approach to the machinery with little in outwardly manipulable mechanisms.

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  • If a revealed preference ranking constructed using our procedure were used in place of manipulable indicators like the crude admissions rate and crude matriculation rate, much of the pressure on colleges to manipulate admissions would be relieved.

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  • Instead of de-conceptualising them, to recover their ‘natural’ form, à la Reich or Marcuse, we must take them as manipulable elements ‘of a wholly conceptual character’ (AT 80).

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  • Oh I forgot Americans always vote against their own interest because the majority are easily manipulable by the media and ready to believe anything they are told without verifying any fact.

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  • But false endorsement, as we just discussed, is manipulable: suppose the plaintiff is Paris Hilton.

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  • With images, courts are more deeply divided against themselves, because images do not readily translate into the kinds of manipulable words with which courts are so comfortable.

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