Act
Act verb - To present a portrayal or performance of.
Realize
Realize verb - To come to an awareness of.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Intersecting with his Psycho Psychologist and Morally Ambiguous Doctorate tags it's begun to be suggested that while acting as a therapist Hannibal "treats" patients by helping them to realize and act upon desires that would, in general society, be deemed as destructive.
Source: Series / Hannibal -
Understandable when you realize that it's extremely similar to the name of a sex act, not so much when it hits you that they censored out the name of one of the in-game skills.
Source: Scunthorpe Problem -
The Rock Opera begins with him wandering the streets in a drug-induced haze before a similarly-fallen mentor makes him realize he needs to clean up his act.
Source: Drugs Are Bad
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