operate

Example Sentences

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The pressure to deliver results every 90 days pushes many companies to remain private longer, where they can operate with a longer horizon. 

From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026

It's also highlighted a sharp difference in how the countries operate.

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026

The high-temperature version described in this research could extend those capabilities to environments where traditional electronics cannot operate, allowing devices such as spacecraft or industrial sensors to process data directly on site.

From Science Daily • Apr. 7, 2026

What’s more, there are countless small yet memorable visual and narrative details to adore — things that, at first sight, look like bizarre directorial choices, but ultimately operate in the service of this gonzo story.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026

When the Mayflower landed at Cape Cod in 1620, forty-one of the men on board wrote an agreement for how their colony would operate.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz