behave
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At the same time, the three-pronged gluon junction could behave somewhat like a Y-shaped magnet, drawing in three newly created quarks from the vacuum and producing a new baryon.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
The British actor, who debuted in Game of Thrones aged 11 and uses they/them pronouns, says they had consciously decided not to behave like a stereotypical teenager after hearing criticisms from adults.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 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
Nevertheless, in a given environment, animals of the same species will tend to behave in a similar way.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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Weights refer to calculations or rules governing how an AI system behaves.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
While the Wisconsin team developed and tested the new reaction system in the laboratory, collaborators in Colorado investigated the underlying chemistry to determine why the approach behaves so differently.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
Even a well-stocked farmers market rarely behaves like a supermarket organized around a recipe’s demands.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
But this only works if the Fed actually behaves as markets expect.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
“She behaves funny. Even Jaja is strange. Something is not right with them.”
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The implication is always the same: If only young people behaved differently, the industry would be fine.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
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
"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
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
They behaved in a way that defines a word I would learn later—kowtow.
From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals
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In Ho’s view, the crypto market stopped behaving like a healthy risk asset after the October crash.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Birds and insects may even begin behaving as though night has arrived.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
Birds and other animals, bewildered by unforeseen night, start behaving strangely.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
Derbyshire says people can also contact police if they see anyone behaving in a dangerous way, such as lighting a bonfire that is likely to spread to a large area.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
Ever since we’d left, you’d been behaving so differently from before.
From "The Bridge Home" by Padma Venkatraman
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