as in operating
being in effective operation
a fully operational oil refinery
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Recent Examples of operational
The Department of Transportation hopes the cable will be operational by July.
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Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 29 May 2025
In the capital Khartoum, there were once nearly 100 public and private medical facilities, now none are operational.
—Emmanuel Akinwotu, NPR, 28 May 2025
There are at least seventeen currently operational rotating restaurants in the United States, the closest being the Skydome Restaurant in Arlington, Virginia, but the disappointing memory of Stouffer’s was Meyer’s only benchmark.
—Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 18 May 2025
In addition, women often have to deal with what Biggins describes as operational overload.
—Trevor Clawson, Forbes.com, 18 May 2025
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Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 29 May 2025
In the capital Khartoum, there were once nearly 100 public and private medical facilities, now none are operational.
—Emmanuel Akinwotu, NPR, 28 May 2025
There are at least seventeen currently operational rotating restaurants in the United States, the closest being the Skydome Restaurant in Arlington, Virginia, but the disappointing memory of Stouffer’s was Meyer’s only benchmark.
—Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 18 May 2025
In addition, women often have to deal with what Biggins describes as operational overload.
—Trevor Clawson, Forbes.com, 18 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for operational
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Under Proposition 309, voters casting mail-in ballots could provide a driver's license or non-operating identification license number, the last four digits of a social security number, or a unique identifying number provided by the secretary of state for voter registration purposes.—
Arlyssa D. Becenti,
The Arizona Republic,
27 Oct. 2022
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The adjusted net income decreased by 8% y-o-y to $3.9 billion in the first nine months of 2022 due to higher expenses as a % of revenues and lower non-operating income.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes,
11 Jan. 2023
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Now that this uncomfortable reality is finally out in the open, though, the operative question becomes: what is Macron's France, and the rest of Europe, actually prepared to do about it?—
Ilan Berman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 June 2025
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Aviation is a domain where the operative metaphor of the show—that life is amenable to simulation—can be fully literalized.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
25 May 2025
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“Operational.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/operational. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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