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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. Ramana Pemmaraju:

    Never take someone for granted based on your perception and act on it, for that would yield in ultimate disaster!”

  2. David Hughes:

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

  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. Frank McKenzie:

    I just didn't find that there was a causative link there. It worried me, and we take extreme force protection measures all the time in Afghanistan, you see a lot of indicators. Many of them are troubling ; many of them you act on. But in this case, there just wasn't enough there. I sent the intelligence guys back to continue to dig on it. And I believe they're continuing to dig right now.

  5. Phil Scott:

    We are a nation of United States – a constitutional republic made up of individually governed states empowering three equal branches of government to act on our behalf – not one nation-state governed exclusively by a president.

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