A more formal way of saying "to manage to do something"

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I always think there must be a fresher, more elegant way of saying to manage to do something. I find myself simply avoiding the expression when I come across it, and now I would need again a solution. When I look for synonyms of this expression, dictionaries like powerthesaurus do not provide many interesting choices.
There is always the other option of to succeed in doing something but I find it has too many words and rather encumbers the sentence.
I am looking for other ways of saying this in general, but I will still give an example:

If we (manage) not to lose hope, we will be able to give hope to others.

What verb could replace manage here?
Note: I need a verb which can be followed by to do something.

Anton · Answer

I can contrive to answer your question by writing this sentence.

contrive = to arrange a situation or event, or arrange for something to happen, using clever planning
Cambridge Dictionary

The usage "contrive to" was more popular in the past according to google ngram but still lives on and seems appropriate to your context.
One example might be: “If we can somehow contrive not to lose hope, we will be able to inspire others.”
Here is an example (sorry, only available as an image rather than text) taken from
How to Succeed

William Theisen · Answer

While not exactly what you’re asking for, in your example you could replace the entire bit with “keep”.

If we can keep hope, we will be able to give hope to others.

This would work similarly for words like faith or belief.

A more formal way of saying "to manage to do something"

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