operative
Example Sentences
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He added the operatives would work at a height above the danger and use hand tools to demolish the building.
From BBC
When it was put to Adams that they were "fellow IRA operatives and IRA volunteers", the former Sinn Féin leader replied: "That is not true."
From BBC
The BBC required the group's permission to report in the city, and its operatives appeared wherever our teams went - though they had no control over our output.
From BBC
A shop owner, also requesting anonymity, believed Hezbollah operatives were hiding there, while others imagined it was Hamas, the group's Palestinian ally.
From Barron's
Just before 7 a.m., a Benin intelligence operative took surreptitious video of five rebel armored vehicles and four pickups leaving QRF headquarters, hazard lights flashing.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
