Growing
Growing noun - (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level.
Operating and growing are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Operating" instead a noun "Growing".
Both words in one sentence
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In this time, the United States has plenty of growing pains operating as a new country.
- Culver's: A fast growing Wisconsin-based fast casual food chain operating all over the interior US is owned and run by the Culver family.
Source: Family Business - Thanks to Science Marches On, there is also growing acceptance of very limited FTL based on the Alcubierre Drive in more recent works, but it will not be a method of Casual Interstellar Travel, and it will be prohibitively expensive and dangerous- effectively operating as a form of Ludicrous Speed.
Source: Mundane Dogmatic
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