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  • present participle of manage.
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managing

British  
/ ˈmænɪdʒɪŋ /

adjective

  1. having administrative control or authority

    a managing director

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The investigators also identified additional partner proteins involved in folding and transporting proinsulin, as well as detecting and managing misfolded versions.

From Science Daily Jul. 28, 2026

Yet schools have many fixed costs, such as maintaining, repairing, heating and cooling school buildings, operating cafeterias and managing many administrative functions that cannot easily be scaled down when enrollment declines inevitably reduce funding.

From Salon Jul. 28, 2026

“We’ve been actively managing costs for some time, working through scenarios to save as many jobs as possible,” BuzzFeed’s leadership team said in the memo.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 27, 2026

Flexibility, as a principle when managing your finances, is generally a good thing.

From MarketWatch Jul. 27, 2026

Well, truth is, she wasn't managing, was she?

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti

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