Broken
Broken adjective - Forcibly separated into many pieces.
Operative
Operative adjective - Being in effective operation.
Usage example: the last operative bookbinder of its kind in the business
Both words in one sentence
- Broken Ace: Alabaster is a ten-ringer, making him the Fulcrum's very best operative.
Source: Literature / The Fifth Season -
He plays a political operative in a wheelchair in The Seven Minutes, and in Hell Fighters, his character, Jack Lomax, is written in as a man who is in a wheelchair, having broken his back while fighting an oil-well fire.
- Serenity: When Mal confronts the Operative with the results of the Alliance's attempt to create a peaceful Utopia, his entire worldview and self-justification are broken.
Source: Break the Believer
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