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behave

[bih-heyv] / bɪˈheɪv /
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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

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

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

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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