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English word

operate

B2Frequent NGSL-1
UK /ˈɒpəreɪt/US /ˈɑːpəreɪt/
verb

to work in a particular way

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And this discovery profoundly changed my view on how I thought the world worked, and it even profoundly changed the way in which I operate in it.

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