operative

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Now he’s President, and history and the world want to know if that boast is still operative.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

Can you explain to us what the equal time rule actually is, how it has been operative for most of my career as a journalist, and what it’s being used to do now?

From Slate • Feb. 24, 2026

The inverse is also true: I am not a white supremacist, a police officer or a military operative.

From Salon • Feb. 13, 2026

The two men are very different: McSweeney, a political operative to his fingertips, steeped in Labour politics for decades; Starmer, the man who arrived in Westminster in his fifties and travels light ideologically.

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2026

It was a grim tale, but operative No. 28 was buoyed by the discovery.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann