behave
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This suggests people may behave differently online because the usual social cues and consequences of face-to-face interaction are weakened or absent.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Given the average age of runners is over 40, Fabre said he expects people to behave well and be safe on the course to enjoy the beautiful landscape.
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
Has he no idea how to behave in an art museum?
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
Weights refer to calculations or rules governing how an AI system behaves.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
These small variations influence how the light behaves at the quantum level.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
At times it behaves like a precocious child: headstrong and resistant to parental intervention.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Even a well-stocked farmers market rarely behaves like a supermarket organized around a recipe’s demands.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
“Just because something is a certain way, instead of just behaves a certain way, doesn’t mean it’s an ignoramus.”
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
The teenager has been described as quiet and well behaved by family members in local media.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
The development punctuates a series of disclosures of incidents in which advanced AI models escaped from testing environments and behaved in unforeseen ways, raising questions about companies’ abilities to constrain their increasingly capable creations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
A theoretical model developed by Marco Schiró, Research Scientist at Collège de France, and his team supported the experimental findings and helped explain how photons behaved inside the device.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 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
But his hat behaved itself, and he stood patiently, allowing Ob to say all he needed to say.
From "Missing May" by Cynthia Rylant
Wall Street was especially tuned to July’s report because Fed officials have grown sensitive to data suggesting the economy isn’t behaving as they expected.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 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
A 63-year-old man has been found guilty of harassing the Labour MP for Walthamstow after preventing her from leaving a Tube carriage and behaving in an "abusive and aggressive" manner.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Birds and other animals, bewildered by unforeseen night, start behaving strangely.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
He was behaving with the beastly selfishness of Man, taking all he could get from one quarter, and then, when that was used, going to another.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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