plural in form but singular in construction
: a book in the New Testament narrating the beginnings of the Christian church
called also Acts of the Apostles
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Biden-Harris did less talking—and acted by passing the CHIPS and Inflation Reduction Acts.
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Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2024
Humana has agreed to pay $90 million to the federal government to settle a whistleblower lawsuit under the False Claims Acts.
—Kathryn Gregory, The Courier-Journal, 16 Aug. 2024
The first concerns Simon Magus, or Simon the Sorcerer, a trickster and Gnostic chancer who appears briefly in the New Testament’s Book of Acts.
—James Wood, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
These Congressional Review Acts — tools Congress can use to overturn the actions of a federal agency — also aim to overturn the new rule’s Medicaid Institutional Payment Transparency reporting.
—Melissa Batchelor and Diana J. Mason, STAT, 26 July 2024
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Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2024
Humana has agreed to pay $90 million to the federal government to settle a whistleblower lawsuit under the False Claims Acts.
—Kathryn Gregory, The Courier-Journal, 16 Aug. 2024
The first concerns Simon Magus, or Simon the Sorcerer, a trickster and Gnostic chancer who appears briefly in the New Testament’s Book of Acts.
—James Wood, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
These Congressional Review Acts — tools Congress can use to overturn the actions of a federal agency — also aim to overturn the new rule’s Medicaid Institutional Payment Transparency reporting.
—Melissa Batchelor and Diana J. Mason, STAT, 26 July 2024
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