operation
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She is a one-woman operation: “It’s my brand, it’s my reputation.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
The refiners still in operation are racing to supply a market in dire need of diesel, which powers all manner of heavy-duty vehicles and machinery, while also scrambling to procure enough crude shipments to process.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
For Schraf-Fletcher, the chance to avoid another major knee operation was especially appealing.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
But in practice, Tourtsakis’ operation felt very different from the version of medbeds I had found on the internet.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
He was in the bed nearer the door, separated by a curtain from his roommate: the Hampden County postmaster, as we later discovered, who was in for a prostate operation.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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He added that ICE operations have surged in Austin in recent weeks.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
"We have seen that vibrating objects can exhibit quantum behavior, which is the prerequisite for many of the operations needed by quantum computing and sensing."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
The Eurocopter AS32 helicopter went down just before 3 p.m. during firefighting operations, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
While ASM mining is regulated in Ghana, many of the local players continue to operate informally, including some mechanized operations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
I’d been too young when I had my big operations to remember the before-versus-after, the dramatic transformation.
From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge
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