Engage
Both words in one sentence
- In Michael Flynn's Spiral Arm novel On the Razor's Edge, this is what finally brought down a maxraj, ordering his troops to engage in a particularly brutal repression.
Source: The Mutiny - This allows you order one character to engage an NPC in dialogue, while ordering the other members of your party to, well, engage the NPC in less courteous modes of communication (like, say, a sword to the shin).
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Then we have Commander Chenkov... Trial by Friendly Fire: A common tactic he uses is ordering troops to engage in close-proximity with enemy forces, ensuring they won't disengage before the artillery fire he orders smashes their locations.
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Ordering and Engage. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 07, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/engage/ordering
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