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Example sentences for: operates

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It operates by electrically acting as if the receiver (handset) had been rapidly and repeatedly replaced on the little pushbuttons (hook switch) inset into the top recess (cradle) of the main portion of the telephone (base).
To assure each component of the system operates with the highest quality and is integrated, the Coalition, with technical assistance support from LSC, is developing a statewide peer review system.
BP Amoco owns 50 percent of Alyeska, the company that operates both the pipeline and the Valdez oil terminal near where the huge tanker Exxon Valdez crashed on a reef in 1989, spewing millions of gallons of heavy crude into Prince William Sound.
In the absence of Rec12 protein and crossovers, a backup distributive (achiasmatic) segregation system operates successfully on up to half of the chromosomes that would otherwise undergo MI nondisjunction.
Further on, Bananera El Guanche provides fascinating insight into how a Canarian banana plantation operates.