Synonyms for act as
act as

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1. act asverb

   function as or act like

   "This heap of stones will act as a barrier"

   Synonyms:
   play, act

2. act, play, act asverb

   pretend to have certain qualities or state of mind

   "He acted the idiot"; "She plays deaf when the news are bad"

   Synonyms:
   pretend, make for, flirt, play, represent, dissemble, dally, recreate, wager, move, wreak, take on, work, toy, roleplay, playact, bet, run, fiddle, spiel, diddle, meet, act, bring, encounter, trifle, behave, do

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1. Georges Clémenceau:

   A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

2. Stephen Breyer:

   If the public sees judges as politicians in robes, its confidence in the courts and in the rule of law can only diminish, diminishing the court's power, including its power to act as a check on other branches, that authority, like the rule of law, depends on trust... that the court is guided by legal principle, not politics.

3. Bob Corker:

   We plan to offer either later today or in the morning a bill that would redefine the 1962 trade act, as it relates to 232, the national security component, what this would do is redefine that and say that the president would go through the same steps that he goes through, but at the end of the day, if he decides that he wants to put tariffs in place, Congress would have to approve those.

4. Vanitha Swaminathan:

   Like, eh, whatever, the CEO of Ford, who cares ? tesla's own brand reputation could act as an insurance policy and limit the damage that the CEO's position has on the brand.

5. Dorothea Brande:

   To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.