operating theater
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A week ago, the director had stopped Rustin in the hallway and mentioned a complaint—something about words in the operating theater.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 11, 2025
The room was circular and tilted downward, like an operating theater.
From Slate • Jan. 27, 2024
Dr. Winters carries his own burden into the operating theater: He has cancer, and only a few months left to live.
From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2022
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
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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