behave
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“The Treasury has invested decades that it would not behave opportunistically like this,” Crandall said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
Early in his career, he had developed an investment strategy based on the idea that there were patterns in markets, and that they didn’t behave completely randomly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
If a company is going to behave like a friend, eventually the friend can become presumptuous.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
The Daily Express says there is "outcry" over the guidebook having to explicitly give asylum seekers advice on how to behave towards women.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
“How shall I behave here?” she asked, as they approached the third mansion.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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
The plasma behaves differently depending on the energy of the collision.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026
“A pity that the sword that Stannis wields is cold. I’ll be curious to see how his Lightbringer behaves in battle. Thank you for the wine. Ghost, with me.”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
When a jerk mistreats us, it can help to have an understanding of why they’ve behaved like a jerk.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
The implication is always the same: If only young people behaved differently, the industry would be fine.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
“He’s so unhappy with how he’s behaved through his life,” Root says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
"The defendant was so preoccupied with his own enrichment that he behaved in a shocking and disgraceful way," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
He roared out songs at the top of his voice, some of them highly objectionable songs, and behaved himself in a way that was nothing less than indecent at the time of a funeral.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
A 63-year-old man has been found guilty of harassing the Labour MP for Walthamstow after preventing her from leaving a Tube carriage and behaving in an "abusive and aggressive" manner.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Birds and insects may even begin behaving as though night has arrived.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
But the yen has also been behaving oddly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 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
Modern quantum mechanics combines both ideas, and it is customary today to think of light as behaving in some circumstances as a beam of particles and in others as a wave.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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