Definition of "manipulations" []

• Plural form of manipulation. (noun)

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• "Such steps are usually very successful - for example, making the Bank of England institutionally independent of political influence was able to remove interest rate manipulations from the policy toolbox of governments seeking re-election - and has been credited with helping the UK's very significant economic recovery."
• "This dance of expressions and manipulations is not simply about starting and stopping a flow of words, initiating or terminating a connection at the technical level."
• "Happily, the embryonic stem cell cultures that Martin Evans was then developing provided the necessary vehicle for taking such gene manipulations from the Petri dish into the whole animal."