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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

“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

People are still figuring out how to behave around other types of robots.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

In other words, the universe could behave much like the standard model predicts near a central region while exhibiting different expansion behavior farther away.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

“If I should ever go to Brighton, I would behave better than Lydia.”

From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

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

A coyote that fails to exhibit fear toward humans or behaves aggressively should be reported to wildlife officials, authorities say.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

By examining these objects, researchers can test how clouds form, how heat moves through an atmosphere, and how atmospheric circulation behaves under extreme conditions.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026

Language, once it comes alive, behaves like an active, motile organism.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

"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

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

Those measurements could also offer clues about how the plasma behaved during the first microseconds after the universe began.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 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

Records of a volcano’s history are a bare minimum Rocky Crandell and Don Mullineaux had done an excellent job detailing how Mount St. Helens behaved in previous eruptions.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

His decision to call his fellow actors together and give them a lecture about behaving more seriously failed to gain him popularity.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

Meanwhile, the ground around its active Santiago crater and lava lake continued to sink, suggesting that a separate, shallower magma reservoir was behaving differently.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

Highlighting worries about the technology, Smith pointed to a recent Anthropic report suggesting small AI models may be only months away from behaving like computer worms, copying themselves from one internet-connected device to the next.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

I sat down on the floor to listen to the song’s story, and noticed how strangely she was behaving.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison


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