operative
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Winstone leads the cast as Alan "Razor" Sharp, an ex-SAS operative, with Cowbridge portraying a town in England.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
An operative arrives, gets in the car and drives it south to Mexico.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026
From the start, Alice is the viewer’s avatar, at once a skilled security operative and someone with no memory of their past.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
Phillips ultimately lost his job with Collins too, this time after crudely mocking a rival political operative whose wife had accused former NBC journalist Matt Lauer of rape.
From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2026
White sent Hoover a memo reporting that an undercover operative was on Hale’s ranch that very moment, spying.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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They asked their supervisors to approve a new investigation and contemplated using undercover operatives to gather more evidence.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
But some staff on the Commission were not convinced of Bayoumi's innocence, and thought it likely he knew Hazmi and Mihdhar were al Qaeda operatives.
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
The Israeli operatives loaded Al-Arabid wounded but alive into a van that sped him across the border into Israel for interrogation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
From then on, however, their operatives would watch his every move.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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