operate
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"Each facility is designed to operate for at least 20 years, and once live it sustains hundreds of specialist on-site roles," he added.
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026
Video cameras operate silently, often in restricted areas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
Big banks will kick off quarterly earnings on Tuesday, even though the stock market will operate with normal hours on Monday.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
Together, the patterns suggest that people diagnosed with depression may experience substantially different changes in how their brain networks operate.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2026
Does Ridge Sabio know how to operate any motor vehicles common in this time period?
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
Fundamental physical constants are numbers that govern how the universe operates.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
It operates in 13 markets in sub-Saharan Africa, where traditional banking infrastructure is underdeveloped.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Hafren Dyfrdwy - which operates in mid and north-east Wales - said it was "working tirelessly" to reduce the average number of spills but "we know more needs to be done".
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Rainmaker operates in states such as Idaho, Utah, Colorado and areas of the Middle East such as Jordan.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
They work varied shifts, because the crow’s nest operates twenty-four hours a day.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
"Operations at the data centre have been completely suspended," it added, advising users to activate disaster-recovery plans as the platform operated in emergency mode.
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026
Founder Glen Bell operated a hot dog stand across the street from Mitla Cafe in San Bernardino, Calif., whose owners first taught him about the magic properties of the crunchy taco.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Gabriel Perez, an aide who operated Trump’s teleprompter, recently left the administration after revelations that he placed lucrative bets on the prediction market Kalshi based on the content of the president’s speeches.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026
Alan Ogilvie, who was operated on by Eljamel in 1995, is spokesman for the Patients Action Group which campaigned for the inquiry.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
They had operated on her leg and she had a cast on it.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
This has ricocheted through the trucking sector, where fuel represents one of the industry’s highest operating expenses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
Piecing together a timeline of events, BBC Africa Eye identified at least eight police officers operating together, wearing tactical clothing and military camouflage.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
Sykes summed up “a pretty strong operating environment for banks” by citing high levels of consumer spending and continuing increases in U.S. households’ net worth.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 11, 2026
This continuous feedback keeps the clock operating at a consistent rate, without requiring a conventional atomic clock to maintain its stability.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
With a steady hand on Doha’s back, father and son walked out of the office, past the family weeping in the operating room, and to the front desk where Nurse Cha was sitting.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
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