How to Use operations research in a Sentence
operations research
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Everett graduated with honors from Catholic University as an engineer with strong backgrounds in math, operations research, and physics.
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Sidney Perkowitz,
JSTOR Daily,
5 June 2024
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Johnson, who is from Montreal, majored in operations research and financial engineering.
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Corey Kilgannon,
BostonGlobe.com,
11 May 2020
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Eighty-one percent of our survey’s respondents reported holding an advanced degree in a related field, with 49% of those degrees in operations research specifically.
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Edward Rothberg,
Forbes,
13 Feb. 2024
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More could be done to avoid slicing the business into six areas in a business school (accounting, finance, economics, marketing, operations research, and organizational behavior).
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Shivaram Rajgopal,
Forbes.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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Mercer, who has degrees from Stanford University in biology, mathematics and operations research and engineering economic systems, is known to be a smart delegator.
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Washington Post,
24 Feb. 2021
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Gennady Samorodnitsky, a professor of operations research and information engineering at Cornell University, has received NSF funding in the past.
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Scott Neuman,
NPR,
28 Apr. 2026
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In addition to studying operations research and financial engineering, Johnson is also pursuing certificates in statistics and machine learning, applied and computational mathematics, and applications of computing, school officials said.
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Joshua Chung,
USA TODAY,
12 May 2020
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In Philadelphia, the difference between the current DOL wage system and Willis Towers Watson for Level I and P1 is only 2% or 3% for a financial analyst or operations research analyst.
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Stuart Anderson,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2026
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