Act
Prosecute
Prosecute verb - Conduct a prosecution in a court of law.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Stella is annoyed that they can't prosecute the girl, because she didn't commit any actual crime, she just pulled the strings to get the other guy to act.
Source: The Sociopath / Live-Action TV -
Genre Blind: Lets just say Terri doesn't act like someone that used to prosecute violent criminals for a living.
Source: Film / No Good Deed (2014) - It also mentions that if the books were any closer to the truth, they'd prosecute the author, an old friend of Bond's, under the Official Secrets Act.
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