behave
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If we understand them only as complex machine systems that are likely to behave in ways we can’t predict and understand, the outputs and actions of these machines we will still have to deal with.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
You’re withdrawing now, and a withdrawal taken during a decline doesn’t behave like a simple loss.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
He had planned to study mechanical engineering, but quickly realized that algorithms, not the hardware, decide how robots behave.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Hashimoto says the next step will be to investigate how CD4 CTLs behave inside human tissues.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026
"I'm sure she'll behave herself during dinner, Jeremy. This is fairly important to your father, so I want you to be polite when they come."
From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville
With a larger sample, astronomers may be able to learn much more about how dark matter behaves and how it is distributed.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026
Tweaking them later can vastly alter how a model behaves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Weights refer to calculations or rules governing how an AI system behaves.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
While the Wisconsin team developed and tested the new reaction system in the laboratory, collaborators in Colorado investigated the underlying chemistry to determine why the approach behaves so differently.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
“Look at the way he behaves as if anything you touch starts smelling like perfume. He really likes you,” Aunty Uju said, and then, face wrinkling, she added, “And even with your hair like that.”
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Wolves, for example, behaved differently from many of the other animals included in the research.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
"So far, I think Russia's behaved quite well, having to do with the Strait of Hormuz," he said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
When a jerk mistreats us, it can help to have an understanding of why they’ve behaved like a jerk.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
The development punctuates a series of disclosures of incidents in which advanced AI models escaped from testing environments and behaved in unforeseen ways, raising questions about companies’ abilities to constrain their increasingly capable creations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
The way he behaved when Oliver asked for more gruel—I knew exactly how that felt.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
“We’re more tolerant, players are behaving better and coaches are doing a good job in education,” Crittendon said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
A 63-year-old man has been found guilty of harassing the Labour MP for Walthamstow after preventing her from leaving a Tube carriage and behaving in an "abusive and aggressive" manner.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Birds and insects may even begin behaving as though night has arrived.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
In Ho’s view, the crypto market stopped behaving like a healthy risk asset after the October crash.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
One was the so- called wave-particle duality of nature at the infinitesimal scale: experiments sometimes showed light and electrons behaving like particles, and other times as waves.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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