Act as
Act as verb - Function as or act like.
Both terms in one sentence
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Poisonous Friend: Unmada Manes (the Manes spawned or attracted by the fields Unmada produce) can guard areas, offer advice, or act as an information network for the Unmada in question.
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Because of the way their lungs work, they can't produce a powerful gust of air when they exhale, so they outfit the "blow gun" with stretchy vines that allow it to act as a blow gun-slingshot hybrid.
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In Torchwood: Children of Earth, the Four-Five-Six incorporate prepubescent human children into their physiology, keeping them eternally alive, childlike, and fully aware, because their bodies produce hormones that act as euphoric drugs on them.
Source: Powered by a Forsaken Child
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