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Antonyms for act onact on

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  1. pursue, follow up on, act onverb

    carry further or advance

    "Can you act on this matter soon?"

    Synonyms:
    engage, pursue, quest for, prosecute, quest after, follow up on, follow, go after

  2. act onverb

    regulate one's behavior in accordance with certain information, ideas, or advice

    "The Founding Fathers acted on certain moral principles"

    Synonyms:
    follow up on, pursue

How to use act on in a sentence?

  1. Kipchoge Keino:

    I have personally tried to reach government officials to agree on how to act on this menace but I don’t get appointments. I make calls that are unanswered, we even tried to convince senior government officials to attend these meetings, but they instead delegate to junior officers.

  2. Swedish Defence Minister Peter Hultqvist:

    In that case, it is their problem. We have a completely defensive agenda. We cannot act on what other countries may feel and think.

  3. Josh Bongard:

    Most people think of robots as made of metals and ceramics but it's not so much what a robot is made from but what it does, which is act on its own on behalf of people, in that way it's a robot but it's also clearly an organism made from genetically unmodified frog cell.

  4. David Hughes:

    The whole thing is a real-time study in what we pay attention to and what we act on.

  5. H.W. Mann:

    Act on awareness, not on thought

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