operatives
Example Sentences
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Nineteen Al-Qaeda operatives hijacked four planes on that nearly cloudless day in 2001.
From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026
Though Awlaki's extremist preaching would come into sharper focus after 9/11, at the time the paintballing video was recorded he already had connections to al-Qaeda operatives and was shortly to be investigated by the FBI.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
Malkovich and Sam Rockwell play veteran CIA operatives who, after helping destabilize Salvador Allende’s government in 1973 Chile, head to Easter Island on a more personal assignment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
Several similar operatives had been detained so far this year, he said, including one person from Kazakhstan.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
The lamps had been extinguished by the operatives as they left their looms, so at first her eyes could make out nothing but the hulking shapes of the machines.
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
