Manage and Referee

Manage

Manage verb - To deal with (something) usually skillfully or efficiently.

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Referee and manage are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Referee" instead a verb "Manage".

Referee verb - To give an opinion about (something at issue or in dispute).

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Manage and referee are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Manage" instead a verb "Referee".

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After resolving the plot there, they return to the same spot and manage to persuade the referee to continue the match as though nothing happened.

Source: Anime / Digimon Xros Wars: The Young Hunters Leaping Through Time
But if you pull it off and manage to steal his bike afterward, especially in Referee's Revenge (where it's practically necessary to win, unless you can trick the other jockeys into knocking one of their buddies off), consider it a player-made Crowning Moment of Awesome.

Source: Video Game / Rocket Jockey
It does not help that the referee is a wheezing thirty stone (350 pound) wizard who is un-used to too much physical exertion, and the forces of evil manage to pull many dirty tricks on the fly (from poisoning the wizards' goalie to breaking the legs of their star player).

Source: Easily Distracted Referee

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