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operate

[op-uh-rayt] / ˈɒp əˌreɪt /




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He opposed the exchanges, he said, because “all they were doing was learning how we operated carriers so they could operate their own.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

Unlike most companies that operate under one-share, one-vote rules, some have opted to give certain shareholders increased voting power, often through a special class of stock.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

KSL’s affiliated management firm, Peregrine Hospitality, will operate the property.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

Until now, scientists believed they understood the basic way retron defenses operate.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

But maybe he was too tired to operate a computer properly.

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Scientists at Gladstone Institutes have discovered an unusual bacterial immune system that operates in almost the opposite way of previously known defenses.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

The chain now operates more than 60 stores across 11 states.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

The chef at Wales' only two-Michelin-star restaurant has defended the way he operates his kitchen after the venue came under scrutiny over food hygiene standards.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

The kingdom doesn’t disclose its total storage capacity but operates a network of facilities abroad, including in South Korea, Japan, the Netherlands and Egypt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

The Dark World operates by no rule except one: Stay anonymous.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu

However, those earlier designs operated on surfaces and relied on the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope to drive their movement.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026

They are particularly concerned about the potential loss of another service at Ysbyty Penrhos Stanley, which previously lost its four-bed hospice unit operated by St David's Hospice in 2025.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

A train operated by the company Iryo, carrying 147 passengers, stopped by an almond grove, its driver awaiting further instructions from a control center.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Bolsonaro, his wife and two daughters boarded "a private flight operated by the company Baires Fly S.A. bound for the city of Guayaquil, Ecuador," the government agency said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

They had operated on her leg and she had a cast on it.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

Experts say wind is now set to take off, and point to Laos's 600-megawatt Monsoon Wind Power Project, which began operating in August 2025, as a bankable case study.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026

The court heard that Cancer Research UK has been operating its scheme for 25 years, providing people with access to a free will writing service.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

Ophir Nave, chief operating officer of Nebius, said that despite Volozh’s comments, the asset-backed financing market remains open, and the company plans to tap it in the future.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

That gives researchers an unusual opportunity to make an "apples-to-apples" comparison between two facilities operating at very different collision energies.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

“This is my last night in the machine shop. He reassigned me to the mine. I’ll be operating a loader on the evening shift.”

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam


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