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Discover LudwigThe phrase "acting as a proxy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing someone or something that is representing or substituting for another person or entity in a specific context.
Example: "In the meeting, she was acting as a proxy for her colleague who was unable to attend."
Alternatives: "serving as a representative" or "functioning as a substitute."
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When doing this, they're acting as a proxy for the readers, trying to improve the piece for their benefit.
To circumvent censorship, a computer acting as a proxy takes a request to a blocked website from a user and retrieves the site on behalf of that user.
Davutoğlu said Ankara would not allow Azaz to fall to the Kurds and accused them of acting as a proxy for Assad and Moscow.
Mr. Sharpton criticized Mr. King in the news media for his attacks on Mr. McCall, saying he was acting as a proxy for Mr. Cuomo, who is white.
Before the Houthi takeover, the US had few contacts with leaders of a militia that has fought against a key US ally, Saudi Arabia, and is accused of acting as a proxy force of Iran.
The combination of economic hardship, ideology (whether religious or political) acting as a proxy for critical inquiry and personal responsibility and the simplified world view being offered up by visual media, is a very dangerous one.
When the connection with Google was revealed more than a year ago, the question on popular tech Web sites like Slashdot.org was whether Mozilla was acting as a proxy in Google's larger war with Microsoft and others.
The United States, acting as a proxy for several of those cash-rich emerging countries, wants Europe to add billions of its own money to its bailout funds first.
And Ethiopian troops habitually cross the Somali border — Ethiopian soldiers have been spotted near a Shabab stronghold for the last several days — and there are fears that Somalia's conflict is acting as a proxy war between the two.
In addition to acting as a proxy for a household's ethnicity, the primary language spoken also serves as an indicator for economic opportunity.
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"To some extent they may be acting as a U.S. proxy.
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