acting as

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Ringrose adds: "When you have a child acting as a brand ambassador and promoting this world to other children it legitimises it."

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026

Living in separate homes, acting as if your house is a teenage crash pad and refusing to make any changes to his habits treats you like girlfriend/boyfriend rather than husband/wife.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 6, 2026

With two black holes acting as gravitational lenses, the region where extreme magnification can occur becomes much larger.

From Science Daily • Jun. 5, 2026

An older retreat attendee who is acting as a mentor stands at the stove, scrambling eggs for the group’s breakfast.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026

Your unconscious, in this sense, was acting as a kind of mental valet.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell