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acto

[ ak-toh; Spanish ahk-taw ]

noun

Southwestern U.S.
plural actos
  1. a short, realistic play, usually in Spanish, that dramatizes the social and economic problems of Chicanos.


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Origin of acto1

< Spanish: act
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The video begins with the text cocinar es un acto de amor, “cooking is a labor of love,” before turning things over to Juana Segundo Casimiro to explain the history and preparation of sendecho, a fermented beverage made from heirloom corn used by the Mazahua in ceremony.

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The members of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization, or ACTO, are hoping a united front will give them a major voice in global talks.

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His administration has also proposed a center for international police cooperation in the Amazon's largest city of Manaus, which may factor into the final agreement at the summit, ACTO's Lazary said.

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Acto seguido, salta por la ventana como había prometido.

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La perspectiva de Galynker ilustra la paradoja de los profesionales que trabajan en la primera línea de diferentes crisis —la prevención del suicidio, la ciencia climática, el cuidado paliativo en niños o incluso el acto de imaginar un futuro distópico en la literatura—, y que exigen que se enfrenten a los peores resultados posibles.

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