Act as and Parallel

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Act as verb - Function as or act like.

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

Parallel verb - To be the exact counterpart of.

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Act as and parallel are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Act as" instead a verb "Parallel".

Nearby Words: parallelize, parallelism, paralleled, paralleling, parallelise

It makes for much more interesting conversations to act as though there's some parallel universe where the events depicted in Lost actually happened and to wonder about those parts of the story's world that we didn't get to see.

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