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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

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How to use act on in a sentence?

  1. Joyce Mitchell attorney:

    I don't believe she was involved in any attempt to kill her husband, just because she heard something doesn't mean she was going to act on it. ... She did not want to be a part of it and did not.

  2. Michael Bender:

    He was seeing something that clearly said to him, ‘There is an endangerment to the child right now.’ And we’re gonna act on it.

  3. Menachem Landow:

    The trouble-makers here are generally from a certain sector of Israeli society, dislocated young men from pious backgrounds, who simply hate Arabs as part of a race theory and are looking for a framework in which to act on that hatred, they have to be tackled individually.

  4. 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.

  5. Michele Meyer-Shipp:

    It is everything : from the imagery Cynthia Matuszek company portrays, from the way Cynthia Matuszek act on social media, to the direct actions of Cynthia Matuszek employees, these are all critical things, both internally with employees and externally with consumers in the marketplace. For companies that are smart, they're going to be thinking about these things.


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