operable
Example Sentences
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Since 2015, Japan has restarted 15 out of its 33 operable reactors.
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2026
But even that won’t be enough to fully replenish the department’s 82-bus fleet, which had dwindled to roughly two dozen operable buses by the end of last year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2025
There are only two working communal bathrooms for residents, one of which does not have an operable light, and only two communal showers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2024
"These findings add to evidence that the perioperative immunotherapy path gives patients with operable lung cancer an opportunity to live longer without their cancer returning."
From Science Daily ● May 15, 2024
Marley had written that line a year before his death, while an operable melanoma was, at that moment, metastasizing to his lungs, liver, stomach and brain.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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