behave
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"We are grown men and we know how to behave," said Joe Root.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
The researchers therefore set out to determine whether the physical folding of DNA influences how heart cells behave, and whether TBX5 helps control that process.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026
Some companies seem to agree, even though there are no regulations that directly address this issue, giving boards some discretion about how to behave.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 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
When the time came to leave later that same night, the countess kissed Karli and told him to behave himself, and then we were walking away from the house.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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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
Controlling how light behaves inside materials has already led to technologies that shape modern life.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026
Monday, May 27,1935 As the day of Nat’s interview approaches, my mother behaves as if her nerves have rotted and fallen apart like old rubber bands.
From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko
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Bite marks preserved in fossil bones can provide rare evidence of how prehistoric animals behaved and interacted within ancient ecosystems.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026
He behaved in a way utterly at odds to their expectations of a funeral director.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
But he behaved as if he’d spent a childhood surviving hardscrabble East Coast streets and was scornful of bourgeois diction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
Instead, reporters sat in their black-tie attire and behaved like sycophants.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2026
But what was the point, the purpose, of my salvation if it did not permit me to behave with love toward others, no matter how they behaved toward me?
From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin
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“Frontier research is actually just about coaxing the models into behaving the way you want them to,” said James Donovan, OpenAI’s former head of cognitive outcomes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
Birds and insects may even begin behaving as though night has arrived.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
Lilly had its own struggles producing enough tirzepatide, but it quickly turned to new ideas that aligned with the way many patients were behaving — like consumers, not patients.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
Birds and other animals, bewildered by unforeseen night, start behaving strangely.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
The easy answer is to say yes and wag a finger at those who are behaving badly.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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