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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

Some became incredible investments later, the operative word being “later.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026

In an age before the internet, before social media, before the cable-TV chat shows and before Carville and the like, Reilly came as close to celebrity as a political operative possibly could.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026

In addition, White brought on an experienced deep-cover operative who looked more like an insurance salesman—perhaps because it was his former profession.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

"Defectors with sensitive backgrounds -- such as former intelligence operatives, diplomats or those with access to state secrets -- are typically kept separately from other arrivals."

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

They asked their supervisors to approve a new investigation and contemplated using undercover operatives to gather more evidence.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

This was almost hilariously tawdry, but MI5 was beguiled by Lyalin’s many disclosures about KGB operatives in London, made as a way to prove that he was not faking his defection.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 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

I tried to focus on the good news that I was part of Mr. Pinkerton’s team of operatives and not on the sad fact that I would have such a pathetic costume.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan