manipulated

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Polls only show a mere tendency - So, don't anybody tell me that the voting on this site CANNOT be "manipulated" -- because it CAN be done -- ex. if one ticks "hate it"

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  1. transitive verb To move, arrange, operate, or control by the hands or by mechanical means, especially in a skillful manner: She manipulated the lights to get just the effect she wanted.
  2. transitive verb To influence or manage shrewdly or deviously: He manipulated public opinion in his favor.
  3. transitive verb To tamper with or falsify for personal gain: tried to manipulate stock prices.
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  • I think he is partially aware that he is being gently manipulated, and I think he is allowing it. —  To Play the Fool
  • He didn't like being manipulated, and for as long as he could remember, someone in his family—Witt, or Kat, or Jason—was trying to pull his strings. —  Jackson, Lisa - See How she dies 2
  • How much RFID data will be misappropriated or manipulated, and to what ends Imagine a society microscopically observed via RFIDs. —  AnalogSFF,September2007
  • So it is easily manipulated, and luckily the changes have been mild of late. —  F ;SF - vol 088 issue 01 - January 1995
  • In the meantime, both sides have been mistrusted, manipulated, and often murdered by the countries in the middle; the Afghans particularly have made the trapping of outsiders a national sport In 1891," Holmes resumed, "Kim O'Hara was seventeen years old and fresh from school when he was dropped straight into the thick of The Game. —  The Game--Laurie King--Mary Russell 07
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