operation
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Speaking anonymously, one said: "It felt like a military operation. The sheer scale and enormity of it is breathtaking."
From BBC • May 6, 2026
“This is a beautiful operation. This isn’t a business.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2025
“This is not a demo operation. This is a repair operation,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said Tuesday morning at the site of the fire, which started under the overpass at Alameda Street early Saturday.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2023
It was, Baker said, “a mom-and-pop operation. … At best, we earn maybe 35 cents an hour.”
From Seattle Times • Nov. 2, 2023
“The only way to stop the poison tide, as you call it, would be to stop the whole mining operation. But that would never be allowed.”
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
Vocabulary lists containing operation
Arithmetic
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The Number System
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The ACT Math Test: Number and Quantity
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