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    operative


    1. “We must treat her as an enemy operative


    2. It was nine months after he went into the capsule, there was time for some operative to get that note from her


    3. “I need to know if that operative that got in here, the one in the Yellelle cherub, did something to his gear


    4. “If they can put an operative on my ship, they can certainly put a false routing tag in a mail message,” Kelvin pointed out


    5. “A Brazilian operative got to her


    6. An Internal Investigations operative, even one who seemed as cow-stupid as Bethai, would have access to all of the internal records


    7. Once he figured that out, he needed to choose an operative to go and look into the background of anything else that Kulai had going on


    8. Until that untrained operative stepped on her heels she had no idea she was being watched


    9. “Then why was there an additional operative following our man and why were you so afraid of what I have to say?”


    10. “I’ve lost two important leads on that case because of cover blown by an unskilled operative who was not mine

    11. “Do you have an operative with a shock of hair that he likes to toss? Skinny, pale, tall?”


    12. It would have been nice to see where that operative went, but without any more to go on all he could do is have someone watch the area and see if the guy turned up again


    13. The word " both" is the operative word here


    14. We're about to tell him to home in on Operative 4, the disabled neurode who has the ruro material


    15. After a brief pause Alistair quietly said, ‘Retrieve the ruro globe then destroy Operative 4


    16. “Old being the operative word


    17. ‘Yes almost being the operative word


    18. In the stasis compound Gerrid looked sternly at the security operative


    19. “Were’ may have been the operative word here


    20. were operative when they were drawn into the distortion, it seems likely the moment the field

    21. The operative had eased inside the compound


    22. The mere fact that both the operative and the device transmission were thus far undetectable was surprising if not remarkable, given the Darangi's supposed technical supremacy


    23. Still apparently undetected, the operative (Op14) approached a Darangi


    24. Frustratingly, she was unable to communicate with the operative


    25. The operative adjusted something at his own temple for Gerrid to shift back into view, but only as a purplish glowing figure


    26. The chosen operative, of course, complied with the rules of the Temporal Directive: he was not from the time of Earth's crisis, and his role did not allow him to effect a [noticeable] change in the predicted time-line; his apparent mission was merely to assist a captive (Gerrid Lytum, former employee of the Darangi via the Nine committee) who had been subjugated within an artificial reality of his own creation by an oppressive Artificial Intelligence


    27. To risk the life of another operative in her stead was unacceptable, when she had all the intel to gain access


    28. Anyone looking at the men getting ready would immediately have reacted with fear something that the SAS purposely wanted to achieve when attacking terrorist, which the SAS operative hoped could buy them just a few valuable seconds in battle


    29. The operative pointed up at a building or rather a line-up of buildings on the horizon


    30. As they had rehearsed, Hermann first handed over his identification as a police operative, then the general safe conduct pass that Tomek had prepared from the template that Colling had provided

    31. Do you deny this? In spite of the fact that you give me papers that show you to be a Polish operative for the NKVD?”


    32. This refers to reproductive karma which is operative in the last moment of life


    33. Unfortunately, due to both of these conditions and post operative pain, Mike was put on opiate pain killers, which unbeknownst to me, Mike had previously abused


    34. The operative words here are that it was regarded as genuine by both sides


    35. In this class is Aryeh Neier, a high-ranking operative in the Institute:


    36. Also shown were pictures of Roger as the shooting victim, plus a sinister looking man with a beard who was identified as Awar al-Walid, the al-Qaeda operative responsible for the attack


    37. cathartic and operative, with the intent of destroying the evil itself, but


    38. And some people, Calvin was sure, saw him as a real contender for the unofficial role of best operative


    39. Chance was an operative connotation, especially since he understood the dynamic


    40. And his fingerprints match those of an ex-CERKO operative and so do the fingerprints of all my attackers

    41. From the beginning Mark proved to be a very efficient operative


    42. The man was an experienced operative who knew all the tricks in the book


    43. She was an experienced operative who was highly admired by her colleagues


    44. 4 In accepting this command of the universe hosts in attendance upon Christ Michael, the Personalized Adjuster took great pains to point out to Jesus that, while such an assembly of universe creatures could be limited in their space activities by the delegated authority of their Creator, such limitations were not operative in connection with their function in time


    45. He had spent weeks at various schools – city locales and countryside, and had even brought in another “Circle” operative to help in an intensive observation schedule


    46. Back in his office in Cape Town, Rory spent a day going through what he had learnt about “Ubisi” in Johannesburg – plus the detailed information now received from his operative who had followed the “Ubisi” tanker to Maputo


    47. What happened to you? How did you wind up in Afghanistan? Are you the child of some Blackwater operative? Is your mom Iranian or something?”


    48. "Section Three's Middle East desk chalked up some great achievements when I was an operative -- KGB exposed attempting to infiltrate Canadian units of the U


    49. As one CSIS operative once said,


    50. Smith? Mainwaring had logically ruled out the possibility of a known KGB operative from the Russian embassy in Ottawa













































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    Synonyms for "operative"

    operative pi private detective private eye private investigator shamus sherlock intelligence agent intelligence officer secret agent functional running working surgical artisan hand labourer workman adequate effectual efficacious efficient serviceable influencing agent investigator

    "operative" definitions

    a person secretly employed in espionage for a government


    someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information


    being in force or having or exerting force


    relating to or requiring or amenable to treatment by surgery especially as opposed to medicine


    effective; producing a desired effect


    (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing