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behave

[bih-heyv] / bɪˈheɪv /
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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

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

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

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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