coacting

variants or co-acting
Definition of coactingnext
present participle of coact

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Verb
  • The gulls weren’t directly imitating the act of eating.
    Samantha Agate, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The gulls weren’t imitating human eating directly but were using the human’s choice as a cue to guide their own foraging decisions.
    Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 30 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Tassoni is best known for his 2023 Black List script Lure, which follows a park ranger lured into the woods by a dangerous, unearthly predator mimicking her dead daughter.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Martha Stewart, who introduced her followers to the tradition in 2005, resurrected the dessert a few days ago on Instagram with a photo of a cake expertly decorated with chocolate curls mimicking a lamb’s wooly coat.
    Lisa Gutierrez April 3, Kansas City Star, 3 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Kentner said this was the third citizen initiative put on the ballot in Lakewood in the past decade, a sign the city needs to do a better job talking to its 156,000 residents before enacting big changes to land-use policy.
    John Aguilar, Denver Post, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Morelle said the purpose of the hearings — another is scheduled for later this week in San Francisco — is to hear from election and voting rights experts and to build a roadmap for enacting election reforms after the midterms if Democrats regain control of the House.
    Linh Tat, Daily News, 8 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • But the series’ genre switch is just a theatrical exercise, like Euphoria is putting on another play, this one against a Harmony Korine– and Quentin Tarantino–aping backdrop.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The re-enactments, which include bomb-making and transportation, as well as the three-pronged plan to escape, have a flavor that calls to mind ’70s heist and spy films, accompanied by Michael James Lee’s jaunty, genre-aping score.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 13 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Fisher Flores, legal director of the American Bar Association’s ProBar project, said that this year the organization has worked on eight habeas corpus petitions representing children who have been held in federal custody for an average of 225 days.
    ABC News, ABC News, 5 Apr. 2026
  • The other three are at-large members representing all county residents.
    Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 5 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Fleming asks, miming a person examining the topping options at an ice-cream parlor.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Elena, a skating coach and choreographer, was on the edge of her seat throughout Naumov’s program, quietly miming his movements in the arena’s second tier above the rink, willing Naumov on with every piece of choreography.
    Alice Park, Time, 11 Feb. 2026
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“Coacting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coacting. Accessed 9 Apr. 2026.

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