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[op-er-uh-tiv, op-ruh-tiv, op-uh-ray-tiv] / ˈɒp ər ə tɪv, ˈɒp rə tɪv, ˈɒp əˌreɪ tɪv /


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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

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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