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act

noun as in something done

noun as in part of a performance

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Some adherents of QAnon are running for public office, but some others have committed violent acts or threatened them, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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With Election Day just seven weeks away, the act is unlikely to become law during this session of Congress.

On July 31, the weekly $600 unemployment checks that were sent out thanks to the CARES act officially expired.

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Every eligible voter’s vote should be counted and not canceled out by fraudulent acts.

The governor should forget about it until after the pandemic and legislators get their acts back together.

A spokesman for Lewisham council said last year that it would be forced to act if the family returned to Britain.

Every once in a while, they act swiftly and acknowledge the problem.

That act forever sealed his feeling for the Chief, bound it up with the war, with violence, with the gun.

The Samaritan guidelines are written around the assumption that suicide is a purely irrational act, an act spurred by illness.

But the act of killing herself done, the message was sent, and heard, and things started changing.

He caught himself in the act of listening to you too credulously—and that seemed to him unmanly and dishonorable.

He was aware that his act by this time, had helped nobody, had made no one happy or satisfied—not even himself.

He had, however, recovered sufficiently to enable him to act with promptitude and discretion.

This seems to be contrary to the spirit and intent of the act, which is primarily to centralize reserves in Federal Reserve Banks.

The Act permits member banks to accept an amount of bills not exceeding 50 per cent.

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On this page you'll find 418 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to act, such as: action, deed, move, operation, performance, and step.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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