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発音

• IPA: /məˈnɪpjʊləbəl/

形容詞

manipulable (comparative more manipulable, superlative most manipulable)

1. Suitable for, or able to be subjected to, manipulation.

   Synonym: manipulatable

   Coordinate terms: (of people) gullible; influenceable, (of objects) configurable

   • 2022, R. F. Kuang, Babel, HarperVoyager, page 457:

     He wondered if this was how men like Jardine and Matheson saw the world – minuscule, manipulable. If people and places moved around the lines they drew. If cities shattered when they stomped.

   • 2024, G. S. Hans, Law Professors Can’t Keep Carrying Water For the Supreme Court, in: Balls and Strikes, August 5 2024

     I think we have a responsibility to emphasize to our students that law is something less: a system, manipulable like any other, for achieving political and policy ends.

使用する際の注意点

Much more common than manipulatable, by a ratio of 5–10 to 1.

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