Act and Case

Act

Act noun - A performance regularly presented by an individual or group.

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Case and act are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Case" instead a noun "Act".

Nearby Words: acting, acted

Case noun - Something that encloses another thing especially to protect it.

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Act and case are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Act" instead a noun "Case".

Nearby Words: cased, casing, casework

old	old act	old case
good	good act	good case
best	best act	best case
particular	particular act	particular case
Other adjectives: similar, single, simple, actual, entire, real, massive, big, bad, criminal, famous, new, major, final, minor, worst, next, double, last.

life	act life	case life
people	act people	case people
name	act name	case name
place	act place	case place
Other words: time, way, damage, war, times, attacks.

When they launched a libel case against a newspaper that had published an extremely negative review of their act, the judge ordered them to sing... and then dismissed the case.

Source: Horrible / Music
Just in case the messenger turned out to be evil, she created an Alternate Self to act as a watchman, judging the messenger's trustworthiness.

Source: The Chooser of The One
Monk gets mixed up in the case because the boyfriend inadvertently steals Monk's newspaper instead of Kevin's, and kills a local paperboy named Nestor Alvarez when he catches him in the act.

Source: No Phones Tonight

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