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behave

[bih-hayv] / bɪˈheɪv /
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Matt Prosz, who hosts and manages other Airbnb properties full-time, believes the update will improve the guest experience without changing how most people behave.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

Eventually I figured out how to make them work, but it took research to learn the way other humans behave and think.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

Until now, scientists have struggled to explain why these supposedly less dangerous tumors sometimes behave so aggressively.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

“What identifies an individual as a king is how other people behave towards him,” says a quote attributed to the actor.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

Obviously, he was trying to make me behave like an animal, inching closer to some morsel of food in his hand.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

Although spin is not literally an electron rotating like a tiny ball, it behaves in certain ways as though the electron has its own angular momentum.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026

Scientists are continuing to analyze data from collisions involving lighter atomic nuclei, searching for additional evidence of how quark–gluon plasma forms and behaves.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026

The problem with endometriosis tissue is that it behaves exactly like the womb lining but it is trapped in the wrong place.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

These fields attempt to understand how the universe behaves when quantum effects and gravity must be considered together, including under the extreme conditions associated with the early cosmos.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

Cesium 137 behaves like potassium and is used throughout the body, winding up mostly in muscle tissue.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

"Though the chatbots often made mistakes, they also behaved as sympathetic listeners to skeptical users -- while still refusing to endorse conspiracy theories," the center said.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026

The calculations also revealed changes in how oxygen atoms behaved as more oxygen entered the melt.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

It is unclear yet from official data, which have a lag, how investors outside France have behaved during the recent volatility.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Speaking to Spanish sports radio station COPE, he said the club behaved impeccably and pursued him properly from the first approach.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

As far as Ralph could see, teachers behaved like ordinary people except that, unlike parents, they said, “Oh, dear, school will soon be starting.”

From "Ralph S. Mouse" by Beverly Cleary

A passenger texted the British Transport Police reporting a male behaving erratically the night before, Cambridge Crown Court heard.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

The filing lays out risks specific to an industry that has faced a string of reports in recent months of AI systems behaving in unexpected and harmful ways.

From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026

Some companies have banned agents from accessing their platforms and behaving in this way.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

But does behaving like a human actually convince people that a machine has consciousness?

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

I was a fool for behaving so much like myself.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine


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