jerked around

verb

past tense of jerk around
as in played (on or upon)

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  1. manipulated
  2. mistreated
  3. used
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  • Roughly half of the 10 patients in the study had some vision restoration after researchers injected them with a gene to make their retina produce a light-sensing protein so that it could be manipulated.
    — O. Rose Broderick, STAT, 8 Oct. 2026
  • The senses of anyone entering these tombs were heavily manipulated.
    — Jacqueline Ortoleva, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of manipulated
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  • Ultimately, the show attempts to draw a parallel between Lizzie Borden and Aileen Wuornos, portraying them as two women abused and mistreated by society who dared to fight back.
    — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Sep. 2026
  • The other has been dismissed or mistreated in a clinic before, and reads the same sentence as confirmation that they were not told the whole story the first time.
    — Aleeza Gerstein, The Conversation, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of mistreated
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  • Thousands of people marched through central Brussels in a protest that was largely peaceful, although some scuffles broke out with police, who used tear gas and water cannons in some instances.
    — Makini Brice, Arkansas Online, 10 Oct. 2026
  • To fix this, researchers used Bayesian hierarchical distance sampling.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2026
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