Collocations for manipulate - verb

easily
They believe that voters can be easily manipulated.

successfully
deftly, skilfully/skillfully
deliberately
genetically
genetically manipulated organisms

digitally
digitally manipulated images

be able to, can
attempt to, try to
Children try to manipulate you.

be easy to
know how to, learn (how) to
She knows how to manipulate the audience.

the ability to manipulate sb/sth

Manipulate is used with these nouns as the object:
data, election, market, media, press, puppet, situation, system, text