Synonyms for act upon
act up·on

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1. influence, act upon, workverb

   have and exert influence or effect

   "The artist's work influenced the young painter"; "She worked on her friends to support the political candidate"

   Synonyms:
   knead, turn, operate, act, shape, bring, work out, run, function, put to work, forge, lick, solve, make, regulate, determine, figure out, form, mould, sour, work, exploit, make for, go, play, do work, mold, tempt, charm, process, crop, exercise, ferment, influence, work on, wreak, cultivate, puzzle out

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1. • Affect

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1. act upon

   Synonyms:
   influence, effect, have influence upon

2. act upon

   Synonyms:
   induce, ACTUATE

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1. Clarence Mitchell:

   They certainly will be encouraged to know the appeal is yielding results already and hopefully within that, there will be crucial bits of information the police can act upon.

2. Tom Kiefer:

   I cannot understand why anyone would want to voluntarily give up an item like a rosary, Bible or photo of their child, or for that matter an extra pair of shoes, pants, shirt or jacket, these are pictures of how people and their personal belongings are treated. If someone wants to judge the ethics and morality of all this, it is up to them to decide what is right and what is wrong and, if they choose to do so, to act upon those feelings.

3. Ramana Pemmaraju:

   Irrespective of your belief system, there are certain forces that act upon us and make us do what we do, ironically human race is the only breed who is more susceptible to it and we keep denying it.

4. Pascale Nassar:

   Unfortunately, the streets are filled up with garbage but we can't find an alternative now. The plan should come from the state, and we will then act upon it.

5. Frans Timmermans:

   We've seen over the last couple of years that radical climate-change deniers have changed their position because the facts are so overwhelming. It's an untenable position, i would assume, as a politician myself, that Donald Trump is thinking about the next election and he's looking at American society. And if you see how much support there is in American society to act upon climate change, he's probably doing the math and thinking that if I want to be reelected, I have to take this seriously.