operate on

Verb

Meaning

perform surgery on

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When it comes to selling stocks, it is plain that nobody can sell unless somebody wants those stocks. If you operate on a large scale you will have to bear that in mind all the time. Edwin Lefèvre

Nutrition science is where surgery was in about 1650, you know, really interesting and promising, but would you want to have them operate on you yet? I don't think so. Michael Pollan

It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures. Alan Perlis

The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. Eric Hoffer

A lot of people in Hollywood, and everywhere pretty much, operate on fear. No one wants to get fired, so everyone's scared to take a chance. There's money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line. Billy Eichner

I pretty much operate on adrenaline and ignorance. Johnny Knoxville

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