- plural of operative.
operatives
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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
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
Nineteen Al-Qaeda operatives hijacked four planes on that nearly cloudless day in 2001.
From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026
From New York to Virginia, American intelligence operatives like Armistead were bewildering the British.
From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen
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