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act

[akt] / ækt /








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Once we started rehearsing and audiences arrived, acting clicked as a career.

From The Wall Street Journal

"After two governments that have been short-lived and have not been able to implement any substantial reforms, this government stresses that it wants to act," she told AFP.

From Barron's

What happened in South Korea, he adds, "shows that democratic erosion is not inevitable and that institutions can successfully constrain authoritarian ambitions... when institutional and societal actors are willing to act".

From BBC

We stand firmly alongside him, and alongside all footballers who are forced to endure this abuse from anonymous accounts acting with apparent impunity.

From BBC

On Friday the US Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the president had exceeded his authority in imposing tariffs under a 1977 economic emergency powers act, saying Congress had to give its approval.

From Barron's