operation
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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
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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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Arithmetic
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The Number System
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The ACT Math Test: Number and Quantity
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