operate
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The aging tankers operate outside global norms for insuring and regulating shipping, which means they are often insured and underwritten by Russia’s state-backed banks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026
KSL’s affiliated management firm, Peregrine Hospitality, will operate the property.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026
"These retrons operate with Rube Goldberg-level complexity, using molecular mechanisms that we would never have thought to invent, but that we'll use in future technologies."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026
It’s not that Schoenbrun is bad at making movies, but their mind seems to operate like a story map, with hundreds of red strings pinned between plot points.
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2026
The bin had to be emptied, and I couldn’t operate the loader—a massive forklift with a telescopic arm and wide, black wheels that were taller than I was.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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Today, Musk operates in a much different world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
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 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
A makeshift storefront houses an “anarchist bookstore” with activities organized by Matthew James-Wilson, who operates the Heavy Manners lending library and gallery in Echo Park.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
The Dark World operates by no rule except one: Stay anonymous.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
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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
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
At 11:30 p.m., just 40 minutes later, the family boarded a private aircraft operated by Baires Fly, with Guayaquil, Ecuador, listed as its destination on the flight plan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
The centre is operated, along with a facility at Dunbar, by Viridor.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
It had operated out of the same location since 1838, and its three-story atrium was ideal for spy work.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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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 Chief Minister of Jersey, Senator Lyndon Farnham, said operating a drone close to an airport was "not a prank or a harmless hobby".
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
Many neoclouds started out as cryptocurrency mining outfits, and most of them have scant histories operating AI infrastructure.
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
The operating room smelled like a super-clean bathroom and was just as bright.
From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge
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