act
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Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh has stressed the importance of ensuring that inflation returns to the 2% target and indicated that the central bank would act by raising interest rates if necessary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
In Na’s case, however, this is just a first act.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Det Con Charlotte Couch, from Avon and Somerset Police, said: "We understand the immense fear this incident caused, with witnesses believing at the time this was an active act of terror."
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
It can detect small pieces of proteins that originate inside a cancer cell and are then transported to the cell surface, where they act like identifying tags.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
I could sit and act like nothing happened earlier, like Rachel hadn’t publicly announced that I was her charity friend.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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In “The Dark Knight,” Christopher Nolan fills Gotham with bombings, acts of mass surveillance and questions about how far is too far.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
A foreperson acts as a spokesperson for a jury in any US legal case, meaning they are the person delivering a verdict and sending notes to the judge on behalf of the 12-person panel.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
A separate agent running on the same machine acts as a check on the Muse agent and doesn’t allow it to reach the internet unless approved.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Many recent stand-up acts might be critically acclaimed, but too few of them seem to garner the level of public praise as others do ire from fans.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
Third, and finally, Adams derived deep personal satisfaction from singular acts of principle that defied the agendas of both political parties.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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For a brief period, the industry acted less like individual companies and more like custodians of a shared national responsibility.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
He said the documents show what the city "knew about the toxic air around Ground Zero, when they knew it, and how they acted to limit liability".
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
"If the temperature acted as a trigger, it seems that it needed to wait until the rock was right at the tipping point of collapse," she added.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
Regulators will also determine whether Tesla acted based on assumptions that certain Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards don’t apply to the Cybercab.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Nigro and Collins both acted fatherly toward the boy, but Collins’s relationship lasted more than fifteen years.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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But I'd rather there had been fewer acting sequences and more gameplay.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
On X, Mr. Coxon elaborated: He had worked for both OpenAI and Anthropic, and said “neither company is acting responsibly.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
“Grangeville,” which Flynn directed for Ruskin Group Theatre, features an acting master class from Tim Cummings and Jeff LeBeau that should not be missed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
“Neither company is acting responsibly,” he wrote on X yesterday.
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026
“There’s going to be legal wrangling. And I’ll have to take whatever acting parts I can get until I’ve gotten everything straightened out.”
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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