operable

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Since 2015, it has restarted 15 out of its 33 operable reactors.

From BBC • Jan. 21, 2026

"These findings add to evidence that the perioperative immunotherapy path gives patients with operable lung cancer an opportunity to live longer without their cancer returning."

From Science Daily • May 15, 2024

The LA County Sheriff’s Department currently has only 23 operable buses out of a total of 82, and there have been days when as few as six were running, supervisors said.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 21, 2024

Up the stairs to the second floor, the main living area and kitchen measure just 13 feet wide; large windows and operable skylights add light and cross-ventilation throughout the linear floor plan.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2023

Marley had written that line a year before his death, while an operable melanoma was, at that moment, metastasizing to his lungs, liver, stomach and brain.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover