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behave

[bih-hayv] / bɪˈheɪv /
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When playing real-life figures, she said: "You have to behave like a sort of detective."

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

MarketWatch: Bitcoin is trading well below its 2025 high, so why does it behave like a speculative investment right now?

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026

My sister Ruth, who was seven years older, exposed me to psychology—why people behave the way they do.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

A study published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology provides new insights into how skyrmions behave and how scientists can control them.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

As if he’d been a circus beast trained to behave like a domesticated creature, the mammoth dog left the dead man’s side and slipped out of our car through the opposite rear window.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

The research team plans to investigate whether the differences between the left and right nerve clusters influence how the heart behaves during rest and physical activity.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 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

Unlike traditional software, AI behaves more like a human worker: It takes action, makes decisions, sometimes even makes mistakes—all on the clock.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Plus, it’s inherently funny when a body engineered to function with extreme precision behaves ineptly.

From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2026

By looking at the collective motion of groups of atoms, physicists could predict the way matter behaves.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

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

If Earth behaved like a completely solid blue marble, its center of mass would line up with its geometric center.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 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

Back in the castle, Ranganathan pointed out: "If somebody else had behaved like Richard, we wouldn't even be having a debate about this, you would just go 'you've got to vote for him'."

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

The Red Cow was very respectable, she always behaved like a perfect lady and she knew What was What.

From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers

A park spokesperson told Omroep Brabant, a local media outlet, that the leopards were behaving naturally and they would not be euthanised.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 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

For now, owners aren’t behaving like they are under pressure to sell.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

We get the drill about behaving, things being old, and how we’re not supposed to touch them.

From "Fish in a Tree" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt


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