behave
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To understand why these systems behave the way they do, we have to look at what is happening inside them, as we would with any other mind.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
"He would play heavy metal first thing in the morning at 6am on the days when he would behave badly," she said.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
These small icy grains effectively behave like miniature comets.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026
It is difficult to predict how much one dollar will be worth decades from now and how the market will behave in a given year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
You have to know how to behave when you are the guest.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
In this version of the story, A.I. stops being a tool and acts as a being that behaves in accordance with its own worldview.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki acknowledged there was still uncertainty about how a new model behaves once released.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
For cosmology, gravity determines how matter behaves across enormous distances.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 18, 2026
Researchers at Rice University have found that extremely small wrinkles in graphene can alter how the material behaves electrically.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
To understand the global weather you must first collect a great body of meteorological data; you must discover how the weather actually behaves.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
The Indian Ocean has increasingly behaved differently from what would normally be expected based on conditions in the Pacific, a change that researchers have linked to climate warming.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
Warsh set aside one of the better arguments for patience when he dismissed moderate growth in wages, which in the Fed’s conventional models is a sign inflation should be better behaved over time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
"So far, I think Russia's behaved quite well, having to do with the Strait of Hormuz," he said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
Today shows them to be one of the worst behaved.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
She looked gorgeous, she smelled great, she behaved well.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
That’s what “nuclear deterrence” is all about; the possession of nuclear weapons deters others from behaving aggressively.
From Slate ● Sep. 10, 2026
For still others, 9/11 remains most powerfully a story about innocent lives lost and ordinary people behaving with extraordinary courage.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
He says those sourcing fake versions are in effect behaving as lab rats without any medical oversight.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
The pattern points to the limbic system behaving more like an integrated network than a collection of unrelated structures.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
Our class even had a discussion: The government may not be behaving as it should, but could we run our classroom a bit more like a democracy?
From "Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World" by Malala Yousafzai
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