His fingers stroked the air, manipulating symbols and menus I couldn't see.

They are merely manipulating symbols without knowing what they mean.

Constructs manipulate real things by manipulating symbols in virtual space.

These include the ability to run separate programs in different windows on the screen and to perform tasks by manipulating symbols called icons.

Throughout the 1980s, pro- and anti-Sandinista forces regularly manipulated religious symbols for political effect.

These people manipulate "symbols - data, words, oral and visual representations."

It is essentially a computer program: a set of rules for manipulating symbols.

These findings have illuminated what the mind is not doing in terms of how it manipulates symbols.

Since solving a mathematical problem involves manipulating symbols and numbers, spatial intelligence is involved.

Language-like only in the sense that they manipulate symbols as a language does.