"managed to adjust" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It expresses the idea that someone was able to successfully make a change or adapt to a situation. Here is an example: "After months of struggling, I finally managed to adjust to my new job and find my place within the company."
It's still around because it has managed to adjust to historical change.
Daddetta lost power herself, but said she has managed to adjust to "walking around with a flashlight".
Faced with a team spiraling, confronted with strategies that haven't panned out, flush in the middle of a crisis, Fassel has not managed to adjust.
A decade ago, he told me he admired Krzysztof Kieślowski as one of the few Polish film-makers who had managed to adjust to the post-communist world.
In January, the Hamas authorities said that they had managed to adjust the station's turbines to run on regular diesel fuel, which is smuggled into Gaza from Egypt, saying that Israel was not letting in sufficient amounts of fuel.
However, firms with a higher share of temporary workers managed to adjust wages more.
ROURKE somehow manages to adjust his pecs so as to give STALLONE a HUG.
Most blind people manage to adjust themselves successfully to the clock by which the sighted world runs.
Nature, we are aware, is infinitely resourceful, yet sometimes we wonder how she manages to adjust herself to man's capricious pressures.
And probably, the buzz is something we will adjust to, because we are at our core a species that, whether we do it one step at a time or all at once, usually manages to adjust.
By Robert M. Coates The New Yorker, June 2 , 1956P. 23 Nature, we are aware, is infinitely resourceful, yet sometimes we wonder how she manages to adjust herself to man's capricious pressures.
