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The pickup acts (or functions, or operates) as a miniature generator.

The acoustic mechanisms operate (or are operative) whenever ...

Diverse mechanisms may be at work in different places on the satellite.

This suggests that such forces are in operation.

Oxygen operates as an electron acceptor.

Both changes operate in the same direction.

Here again some common mechanism is operating.

This agreement indicates that no other large force is operative.

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