Engage
Operating
Operating adjective - Being in effective operation.
Both words in one sentence
- Anyone restrained from operating it will engage in emotional outbursts like a young child.
Source: Emotion Control -
The main bad guys of the Korean film The Man from Nowhere are Triad gangsters operating in South Korea that engage in organ harvesting.
Source: Organ Theft - Operating without the scoops allows them to travel much faster, but then their effective range is much reduced (due to them not scooping in any extra hydrogen), not to mention neither humans nor Kilrathi having the reaction times required to engage at such speeds.
Source: Literature / Wing Commander
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