operating theater
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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
The room was circular and tilted downward, like an 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
Moments later, the soldiers walked noisily past the operating theater.
From New York Times • Apr. 19, 2022
He was opened up in the main operating theater at Nairobi Hospital by a team of surgeons headed by Dr. Imre Lofler.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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