| labor(noun, person, staff, workers, employees) | |
| laboring(running, functioning, operational) | |
| lively(adjective, active, alive, existing, breathing) | |
| living(adjective, active, animate, conscious, alive) | |
| man | |
| manipulate | |
| manipulator | |
| motive | |
| mover(representative, manager, deputy, mediator) | |
| moving(adjective, active, effective, running, alive) | |
| operate | |
| practitioner | |
| pragmatic(adjective, reasonable, useful, realistic, beneficial) | |
| real(applied, hands-on, real-world) | |
| ruling(usual, main, universal, general, principal) | |
| run | |
| spook(noun, plant, informal, investigate, agent) | |
| spotter(noun, plant, agent, mole, gumshoe) | |
| striking(important, powerful, effective) | |
| telling(important, powerful, effective) |
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