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behave

[bih-hayv] / bɪˈheɪv /
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We need to change the way we behave to give them a better example.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Like dogs, we have engineered large language models to read us and behave in ways we can easily read.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

There are many immediate factors that will influence how Indian markets behave going forward.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Then there's this, he said: AI models are getting better and better at detecting when they are being tested and might behave differently when they are actually deployed, fooling their masters.

From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026

If you ever do, you should behave as you would if you met an enraged rhinoceros out in the bush—climb up the nearest tree and stay there until it has gone away.

From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl

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

Watch whether gold behaves as though that rate increase solves anything.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

Watch the mushrooms more than the clock; a mix containing oyster mushrooms behaves differently than a pan full of white buttons.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026

“That old sourpuss. You’d think the man had a very unhappy childhood with the way he behaves sometimes.”

From "Clean Getaway" by Nic Stone

Hours later, following the Eagles’ 27-7 loss to the Bears, Sirianni expressed regret for how he behaved.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

The now-retired Falcao speaks fondly of Pinto, who he says behaved just like his friends and would "go to the gym, go to McDonald's".

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

“This is not how Navatek behaved or conducted business before I sold the company to Martin Kao,” Loui wrote to ProPublica.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

The researchers also found major differences in how the two types of cells behaved after treatment.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026

“It’s my Patel breeding. We Patel boys are very well behaved, you know. Ma wouldn’t have it any other way.”

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon

The observations provide the first direct evidence that quark-gluon plasma responds to fast-moving particles as a unified fluid, producing waves, splashes, and swirling motion instead of simply behaving as a collection of independently scattering particles.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

But these days, it is behaving less like a barometer of market health and more like a funhouse mirror.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

"Now, I think it's Mediapart that needs to be told to put on its Kevlar vest, because there will obviously be a response to the way they are behaving," she said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

The company is also instituting a feature that would lock out users behaving abnormally.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 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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