Manage
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- The protagonists manage to set one of these up for the invading cockroach aliens in Godzilla vs. Gigan.
Source: Somebody Set Up Us the Bomb -
The comic's title was "You'd be amazed at what can be set on fire." Nearly four hundred comics later, Abel and Dan manage to set the cabbage on fire.
- Larry Niven's novel The Ringworld Throne did very little to actually move the plot of the overall series, but did manage to use its last couple of chapters to set the next novel up pretty handily.
Source: Arc Fatigue
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Set and Manage. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/manage/set
Manage & Set. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/manage/set>.
Set or Manage. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/manage/set.
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