they manipulated
-ont manipulé
Past they conjugation of manipulate.

manipulate

And that's how they manipulated the truth to cut off the principle.
C'est ainsi qu'ils ont manipulé la vérité pour arrêter le Principe.
I thought I'd slipped up, but they manipulated me.
Je croyais m'être trompé. Mais ils ont tout manigancé.
They cruised around the construction site, they manipulated the bamboo—which, by the way, because it's a non-isomorphic material, is super hard for robots to deal with.
sur le site de construction, manipulaient le bambou, le bambou qui est d'ailleurs, étant non isomorphe, très compliqué pour les robots.
The truth is that they were probably not spying on the pirates, but that they manipulated them, financed them, and probably likely eliminated them shortly before September 11.
La vérité est probablement qu’ils n’espionnaient pas ces pirates, mais qu’ils les manipulaient, les finançaient, et probablement les ont éliminés peu avant le 11-Septembre.
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