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operating theater

NOUN
operating room
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After two decades in the operating theater he knew everything about his performance, including his weakness: a tendency to demand almost as much of everyone else in the room as of himself.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 11, 2025

She tried the door to the operating theater.

From Slate • Jan. 27, 2024

Tweezer in hand, Mandolin Brassaw concentrates like a surgeon in the operating theater as she places metal letters in minuscule 6-point type into a curved tray.

From Seattle Times • May 1, 2022

In the small operating theater, hands and feet are carefully repaired.

From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2022

“Good,” he said, “we are taking you to the operating theater immediately.”

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela




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