operating room

noun

US
: a room in a hospital where operations are done

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The Chargers have options to play on the outside around McConkey — options that can attack vertically in different ways and stretch defenses to create more operating room in the middle of the field. Daniel Popper, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025 Set at the Maguire Medical Center in Miami, Pulse shows life-threatening surgeries alongside office politics and personal relationships which inevitably spill into the operating room. Christopher Rudolph, People.com, 4 Apr. 2025 Keith Meister, in the operating room of his private practice, draws a six-centimetre line on the elbow of a baseball pitcher. Lindsey Adler, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2025 Eventually, a third doctor removed it in the operating room. Essence, 14 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for operating room

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