operating room

noun

US
: a room in a hospital where operations are done

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Neither Silvia nor Guojun showed up at the hospital on Mother’s Day, 2025, when the Pennsylvania surrogate who’d confided in Elliott was wheeled into an operating room for a C-section. Ava Kofman, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026 While that procedure was being done, the donor's liver was secured in a machine in the same operating room. Dillon Thomas, CBS News, 3 Feb. 2026 Though particular and precise in an operating room, Toni possesses a magnetic zest for life and exudes warmth with patients and her students. Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 29 Jan. 2026 The tragedy does not end in the operating room. Myron Rolle, The Orlando Sentinel, 23 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for operating room

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