micromanaged

verb

Definition of micromanagednext
past tense of micromanage
as in controlled
chiefly US to try to oversee all the small parts of (something, such as an activity) in a way that is usually not wanted or that causes problems He micromanaged every detail of the budget.

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  1. manipulated
  2. addressed
  3. negotiated
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  • In that case, too, the final agreement wasn’t over whether their work could ever be manipulated by AI—special effects have existed in movies for a long time, after all—but whether the creator has an informed say in it.
    Jenn Brice, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Are the questions and indicators that prompted a computer system creative, or is something creative when only human hands and eyes have directly manipulated it?
    Megan Poinski, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
Definition of manipulated
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  • Some questions critics of the system hoped to answer, such as whether the system itself is helping or harming student learning or is biased against more disadvantaged students, were not addressed.
    Yesenia Robles, The Denver Post, 14 Nov. 2024
  • But even then, the extra enforcers haven’t addressed the underlying problem.
    Max Blau, ProPublica, 14 Nov. 2024
Definition of addressed
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  • The league's latest CBA does not include specific rules for expansion drafts, so all of this would have to be negotiated between the players' union and the team governors.
    Bryan Toporek, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
  • By that fall, some money started to roll in, as Par-Lay negotiated VanVleet’s four-year, $85 million contract with the Toronto Raptors and Beasley’s four-year, $60 million contract with the Minnesota Timberwolves.
    Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of negotiated
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