Act as and Justify

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Act as verb - Function as or act like.

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Justify and act as are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Justify" instead a verb "Act as".

Justify verb - To be an acceptable reason for.

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Act as and justify are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Act as" instead a verb "Justify".

Professor Hayle of Twig uses this philosophy in order to justify his decision to sink his deparmental funding into six separate projects, children with Super Intelligence who would act as a gestalt.

Source: Evilutionary Biologist
This is used to justify having Jean act as a decoy, disguised as Eren.

Source: Face of a Thug
The Shrink: Kelly is allowed to actually act as a counselor: if Shepard speaks to her, she brings up choices they've made and gives Shepard the chance to justify or otherwise talk them out without offering judgement.

Source: Fanfic / Renegade Reinterpretations

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