behave
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If you don’t behave properly, are you going to have a sound sleep?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
As an American, you’re aware, I’m sure, that how we are portrayed in the news and pop culture is not all that accurate compared with how many of us behave day to day.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
Scientists have identified genes and proteins that may contribute to these conditions, but studying them can be extremely difficult when researchers lack a reliable way to change how those biological targets behave.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026
But they're a minority shareholder here but we don't behave like that.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
They were both looking at her without expression, but somehow their lack of expression seemed like an expression of warning to her to behave herself.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
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Even a well-stocked farmers market rarely behaves like a supermarket organized around a recipe’s demands.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
The plasma behaves differently depending on the energy of the collision.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026
But this only works if the Fed actually behaves as markets expect.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Researchers also say there is a lot unknown about cyclospora, which behaves differently and is more difficult to track than other foodborne bacteria like E. Coli or salmonella.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
No one is looking at him, but he behaves as though there is.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
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He behaved in a way utterly at odds to their expectations of a funeral director.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
But he behaved as if he’d spent a childhood surviving hardscrabble East Coast streets and was scornful of bourgeois diction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
Instead, reporters sat in their black-tie attire and behaved like sycophants.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2026
It doesn’t tell you how its investors behaved.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
He and Annabeth had only made it this far through Tartarus because Nico di Angelo had behaved like Bob’s true friend.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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But the yen has also been behaving oddly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
The researchers concluded that these participants were not simply behaving more recklessly.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026
Birds and other animals, bewildered by unforeseen night, start behaving strangely.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
He is behaving like he's still the mayor of Manchester.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
And throughout the whole beginning of the service, Ma would peer down the pew to make sure we were behaving, which was hard because we always sat in the row with the stinky Thomases.
From "Patina" by Jason Reynolds
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