behave
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"There is no place in our police service for officers who behave in this way."
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026
“It’s rarely actually useful to diagnose anyone because we’re so complex, and people behave in such different ways in different contexts and so much is systemic.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
I still had to remain alert: Like all such systems, it can disengage suddenly or behave erratically.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026
"It's still very wild west in the the creative industries, people behave how they want," she said, adding that while "you can't change the humans, you can change the rules around them".
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
The other girls laugh, and I try to manage at least a smile, to behave as one of the group.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
Because the alternative solution emerges from a specific theory of gravity, it makes predictions about both cosmic expansion and how gravity behaves across the Universe.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2026
In the vocabulary of investing, redemption behaves like that.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
Understanding how matter behaves at the smallest scales is essential for developing the next generation of technology.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2026
The problem with endometriosis tissue is that it behaves exactly like the womb lining but it is trapped in the wrong place.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
She behaves as though money were the problem.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
"Social norms are geared up that women are well behaved, they don't swear, you don't break anything."
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
“When you look at the VXN chart and how it’s behaved this year, it’s more representative of the volatility that’s we’ve seen — both up and down,” Treacy said.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026
"Though the chatbots often made mistakes, they also behaved as sympathetic listeners to skeptical users -- while still refusing to endorse conspiracy theories," the center said.
From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026
The calculations also revealed changes in how oxygen atoms behaved as more oxygen entered the melt.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026
But I could read it every day in class if I behaved myself.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
Anthropic's roughly 400-page filing devotes more than 90 pages to risks, including those facing an industry that has seen a string of reports in recent months of AI systems behaving in unexpected and harmful ways.
From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026
A passenger texted the British Transport Police reporting a male behaving erratically the night before, Cambridge Crown Court heard.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
On markets: The market is behaving like a seesaw, with AI stocks on one side and everything else on the other, writes Joseph Adinolfi.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 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
He’s looking at my hair, which Celia helped me style, so even the side bangs are behaving.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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