acting on

Example Sentences

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Customs and Border Protection, acting on the warrant, detained Marquez as he returned to the country through the border checkpoint.

From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2026

Some law enforcement agencies argue that acting on imperfect signals is preferable to missing serious risks.

From Salon • May 12, 2026

In competitive fishing, some outfits are acting on their own.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

The Oxford team developed a solution by combining two precisely controlled forces acting on a single trapped ion.

From Science Daily • May 1, 2026

The Joliots had hypothesized that the same radioactivity they had induced in boron with alpha particles would be produced by deuterons acting on carbon.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik