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act up

verb as in misbehave

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"When people hear leaders using that language it allows the average Joe Bloggs to act up and that's why we had the race riots of Summer 2024," she added.

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RCA still sees plenty of room for Sleep Token and its ilk to win freshly curious audiences, and conjure even more metal acts up the charts.

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I started acting up simply to keep myself occupied.

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In the early years, he said, he acted up, raking up disciplinary infractions that landed him in solitary confinement.

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I told her the camera is going to be constantly running, so when she’s acting up — and I wanted to open the film with that — she knew that was being recorded.

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

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