behave
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There is a brief address from management reminding diners of the "charter" committing them to behave with respect and decorum, and then the fun begins.
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026
Insufficient airflow control can prevent the vortex from forming, causing the fire to behave more like a conventional burn.
From Science Daily • Jun. 5, 2026
Judges are expected to behave with decorum while on the bench, but the profession doesn’t demand that they forfeit free-speech rights in retirement.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
Many existing fallout models primarily treat materials as if they behave independently, meaning some of these chemical reactions are only partially represented.
From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 2026
Yet as weird as these singularities behave, they were no longer mysterious to mathematicians, who were learning to dissect the infinite.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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