behave
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"We are grown men and we know how to behave," said Joe Root.
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
He kissed his head and told him to behave.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
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Weights refer to calculations or rules governing how an AI system behaves.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 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
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
Actually, that’s unfair to Harlow, who behaves like a perfect angel.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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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
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
The released model behaved as if it never learned that information.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 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
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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
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
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
“And now you are behaving as if you were.”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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