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"Research such as this underscores the importance of safely obtaining and comparing electrical recordings pre and post operatively, particularly when a brain hub might be affected."

From Science Daily • Dec. 8, 2023

Corn, that hitherto had not been grown, both may be grown, and certainly will be grown, as soon as the new motive for growing it, the new encouragement, becomes operatively known.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. by Various

A shaft which has thereon pulleys or gears to connect operatively with the gears or pulleys on a machine, and change the speed.

From Practical Mechanics for Boys by Zerbe, James Slough

In willing actively and operatively to be that which he was made in order to be, he becomes creative—so far as a man may.

From There & Back by MacDonald, George

If it comes to more, and he is justly assessed, it shews that he did not sustain his proper share of depreciation, because the one was as operatively his tax as the other.

From A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal, on the Affairs of North America, in Which the Mistakes in the Abbe's Account of the Revolution of America Are Corrected and Cleared Up by Paine, Thomas