Act and Incident

Act

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

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

Nearby Words: acting, acted

Incident noun - Something that happens.

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Act and incident are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Act" instead a noun "Incident".

particular	particular act	particular incident
similar	similar act	similar incident
certain	certain act	certain incident
original	original act	original incident
Other adjectives: single, actual, entire, real, massive, big, little, bad, terrible, horrible, famous, major, minor, worst, last, horrific.

This act is referred to by Agent DiNozzo as 'pulling a Palmer', after a similar incident where Palmer crashes his car into a suspect's car to prevent his escape.

Source: Person as Verb
In the climax, the incident resolvers are betrayed by the Myouren Temple, and rather than act as a Red Shirt Army, it's played realistically as the incident resolvers are massively outgunned.

Source: Web Animation / Diamond in the Rough (Touhou)
Similar to the Pokémon incident above, the producers' reaction was to strike the episode from the canon and act like it never existed.

Source: Old Shame / Live-Action TV

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