Manipulate
Operate
Operate verb - To control the mechanical operation of.
Usage example: do not operate heavy machinery, including cars, after taking this medication
Manipulate is a synonym for operate in manage topic. You can use "Manipulate" instead a verb "Operate", if it concerns topics such as drive.
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- They use astrology to manipulate destiny, and sometimes operate in disguise on Creation to ensure that fate goes the way it's supposed to.
Source: The Chooser of The One -
Techniques (or rather, TECHNICs), operate by allowing their user, with the aid of a technological/computerised focii and portable photon reactor, to manipulate energy fields by means of latent psychic abilities.
Source: Powers as Programs -
While she is not almighty, since she is forced to operate within the limitations of constants and variables, by the end of the game, she can manipulate those variables and thus tweak the entire multiverse in any way she pleases.
Source: Little Miss Almighty
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