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  • adjective Abbreviation of acting.
  • adjective grammar Abbreviation of active.
  • adjective Abbreviation of actual.
  • noun plural Abbreviation of activities.
  • noun singular Abbreviation of actor.
  • noun singular Abbreviation of actuary.

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Examples

  • I think it's about time that CNN gives up their spin act.

    CNN Poll: Majority of Dems want Clinton to be VP 2008

  • What you want to look for are the key elements that move you plot, and the motivating factors that make your protag act.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Janice Hardy 2009

  • What you want to look for are the key elements that move you plot, and the motivating factors that make your protag act.

    Query Week: Step Three. The Rewrite Janice Hardy 2009

  • It is even more telling that he is trailing behind a Republican opponent who is lifting George W. Bush's country bumpkin act.

    July 2006 2006

  • The Empire PoolWembley Arena is a cavernous hall at the best of times, and it must seem monstrous when you're a solo acoustic support for a big name act...

    For the birds... sbisson 2004

  • The Empire PoolWembley Arena is a cavernous hall at the best of times, and it must seem monstrous when you're a solo acoustic support for a big name act...

    For the birds... sbisson 2004

  • And when he found out Madonna was in the running for best live act, he delivered his own four-letter word act.

    CNN Transcript Oct 5, 2004 2004

  • The resort to this expedient by these countries may well arrest the attention of those who suppose that we can succeed without shock or injury in the attempt to circulate upon its merits all the silver we may coin under the provisions of our silver-coinage act.

    State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.

  • Every effort has been made, from that time to this, to have the Congress of the United States pass a free coinage act.

    Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. John Sherman

  • Frank would have given a great deal could he have recalled the act.

    Frank Oldfield Lost and Found T.P. Wilson

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