How to Use stage-manage in a Sentence
stage-manage
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Daniel uses it to threaten the operatives, recover the backpack, and stage-manage their escape.
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Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
16 June 2026
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Even if the call to redistrict was legit, DeSantis clearly stage-managed the process to keep it on ice as possible.
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Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board,
The Orlando Sentinel,
14 May 2026
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What there will not be — if those stage-managing this celebration have their way — is an honest accounting of the history being celebrated.
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Otis Moss Iii,
Chicago Tribune,
28 June 2026
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Bush was in constant contact with Mikhail Gorbachev to stage-manage the structured collapse of the Soviet empire.
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Philip Elliott,
Time,
27 Apr. 2026
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For three days, it is packed with career-defining sets for some of the most important, influential and up-and-coming artists in the world, exquisitely choreographed, stage-managed and filmed, and broadcast all over the globe.
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Steven J. Horowitz,
Variety,
13 Apr. 2026
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After all, elections in Russia have become decidedly pro forma affairs in recent years, carefully stage-managed to deliver the results the Kremlin wants while preserving a veneer of political pluralism.
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Ilan Berman,
Forbes.com,
17 Aug. 2026
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