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operation

[op-uh-ray-shuhn] / ˌɒp əˈreɪ ʃən /


NOUN
surgical procedure
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Pope Leo XIV will be discharged from Rome's Gemelli Hospital on Saturday afternoon, just four days after an operation to remove a cancerous growth from his lung.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

Costs from hiring, junkets and pro-sport endorsements to build the retail operation added up and drew ire from other divisions, the current and former employees said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

It is unclear why the vessel was in the area or whether it was part of a human smuggling operation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

"This incident serves as a reminder that forest and land fire extinguishing is a high-risk operation," it said, adding personnel safety remained a primary concern.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

The scanty group of strikebreakers—the first of many, I was sure—wouldn’t be enough to keep a slaughterhouse of this size in operation.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

But when the Canadian government rejected its plan to sell them to China over concerns about animal welfare, the park's operations said they would have to be euthanised.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

Recognizing its importance to Germany's nuclear ambitions, Allied forces targeted the plant through sabotage and bombing operations.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

It described his operations as "a 'business-as-security' model unprecedented in the region".

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Cleveland-Cliffs plans to lay off up to 500 workers at its Stelco operations in Canada, prompting opposition from the Canadian government.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Yet this substanceless number threatens to undermine the simplest operations in mathematics, like multiplication and division.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife


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