behave
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This suggests people may behave differently online because the usual social cues and consequences of face-to-face interaction are weakened or absent.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Democratic theory tells us how to expect politicians to behave in the presence of such incentives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
As much as we like to think that adults will behave responsibly, you run the risk of the tenant/landlord saying, “I lost $100.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
Among them was the academy’s annual summer party, themed after 18th-century Georgian pleasure gardens — Britain’s oil-lamp-lit outdoor venues where aristocrats, the newly rich and everyday revelers gathered to see, be seen and behave badly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
The answer to this seemed, almost unquestionably, No. Not only did he behave as if he wasn’t attracted to Bunny, he acted as if he were hardly able to stand him.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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Weights refer to calculations or rules governing how an AI system behaves.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
At times it behaves like a precocious child: headstrong and resistant to parental intervention.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Even a well-stocked farmers market rarely behaves like a supermarket organized around a recipe’s demands.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 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
Initially the dial is set at 1 g' and everything behaves as we have grown up to expect.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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“He’s so unhappy with how he’s behaved through his life,” Root says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
The teenager has been described as quiet and well behaved by family members in local media.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
This approach helped address a major criticism of earlier "power pose" research: that participants may have behaved differently because they understood what the researchers expected.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026
It was unfair to the students who wanted to learn and were well behaved, and it was difficult to teach when nothing could be done to mitigate the disruptions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Where Aristotle had assumed that each element behaved differently, the new physics assumed that all heavy objects could be thought of as the same.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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Wall Street was especially tuned to July’s report because Fed officials have grown sensitive to data suggesting the economy isn’t behaving as they expected.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
When electrons are restricted to a two-dimensional plane and interact strongly enough, they can begin behaving very differently from ordinary electrons.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
Birds and other animals, bewildered by unforeseen night, start behaving strangely.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
They do not explain why Washington could borrow at a discount for 40 years while behaving like this.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
“So I was like, ‘You know, the way they’re behaving is the way I’m going to behave.
From "Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference" by Warren St. John
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