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behave

[bih-heyv] / bɪˈheɪv /
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You may find out that you behave differently in a group than alone together or with spouses.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

As well as helping create evidence, advisers also promise to train fake claimants on how to behave during crucial interviews with the Home Office, where their applications are assessed.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

By doing these things you are incentivizing him to behave more badly in the future.

From Slate • Apr. 15, 2026

Superatoms and giant atoms are engineered systems that behave like atoms rather than naturally occurring ones.

From Science Daily • Apr. 13, 2026

If they sometimes behave like actors in a historical drama, that is often how they regarded themselves.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis




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