operation
Example Sentences
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U.S. special operations forces began to do dry runs of the extraction, practicing on a replica of his Caracas compound at a military base.
He described it as a "law enforcement operation", and said Maduro was arrested on the ground by FBI agents.
From BBC
Pundits who failed to predict the operation in the first place gravely stroked their chins before intoning that the Venezuelan adventure must inevitably fail.
Absent a much larger U.S. military operation, they might be unwilling to cooperate.
When that limit is exceeded, the plasma often becomes unstable, disrupting confinement and threatening the operation of the device.
From Science Daily
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