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The phrase "acting realistically" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing behavior or performance that is grounded in real-life situations or practical considerations.
Example: "In the film, the actors excelled at acting realistically, making the story more relatable to the audience."
Alternatives: "behaving authentically" or "performing credibly".
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There have, however, been some exceptions for gags, but most of the time the staff of The Simpsons tries to keep animals acting realistically.
Mirkin said there were some exceptions for gags, but most of the time they tried to keep the animals acting realistically.
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As the sun sets on another costly defeat, we are obsessed with looking tough rather than acting soberly and realistically.
Public health can only be realistically addressed by governments acting in the public's interest.
e360: How do you realistically get governments and businesses to think this way and to start acting this way?
There's realistically only four: money printing, taxation, selling government debt to the public and acting as a debtor to other nations.
But look a little closer, and under all the usual rhetoric there is a realistically commercial affair.The space station may be a ludicrous mansion in the heavens, but acting as its grocery van is a valid business.
Jurors were asked whether it was "realistically conceivable" that he sleepwalked through the entire prolonged attack, but they decided Mr Lowe was not acting voluntarily.
Enough acting.
Hammy acting?
Not acting.
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