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behave

[bih-heyv] / bɪˈheɪv /
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If you don’t behave properly, are you going to have a sound sleep?

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

As an American, you’re aware, I’m sure, that how we are portrayed in the news and pop culture is not all that accurate compared with how many of us behave day to day.

From MarketWatch Aug. 6, 2026

But they're a minority shareholder here but we don't behave like that.

From BBC Aug. 3, 2026

Although these molecular twins can appear nearly identical, they may behave in dramatically different ways, particularly in living systems and medicines.

From Science Daily Jul. 28, 2026

"You tell him, Jake. Tell him either he must behave or get out."

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

While the Wisconsin team developed and tested the new reaction system in the laboratory, collaborators in Colorado investigated the underlying chemistry to determine why the approach behaves so differently.

From Science Daily Aug. 9, 2026

These small variations influence how the light behaves at the quantum level.

From Science Daily Aug. 8, 2026

Even a well-stocked farmers market rarely behaves like a supermarket organized around a recipe’s demands.

From Salon Aug. 4, 2026

“Unless Starlink behaves very aggressively, the Big 3 will probably not provide an MVNO.”

From MarketWatch Jul. 25, 2026

Actually, that’s unfair to Harlow, who behaves like a perfect angel.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

It was unfair to the students who wanted to learn and were well behaved, and it was difficult to teach when nothing could be done to mitigate the disruptions.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 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

Instead, reporters sat in their black-tie attire and behaved like sycophants.

From Salon Jul. 29, 2026

The waves recorded near the OJP behaved in an unusual way.

From Science Daily Jul. 18, 2026

Because part of Flo’s attention now went to the new baby, Flint became upset and behaved like a jealous human child.

From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall

The researchers concluded that these participants were not simply behaving more recklessly.

From Science Daily Aug. 5, 2026

Birds and other animals, bewildered by unforeseen night, start behaving strangely.

From Barron's Aug. 5, 2026

They do not explain why Washington could borrow at a discount for 40 years while behaving like this.

From MarketWatch Jul. 27, 2026

The actions of the players and staff could be judged as "violating the basic rules of decent conduct" and "behaving in a way that brings the sport of football and/or Fifa into disrepute".

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

I was sure that few husbands behaved as strangely as Hamlet was behaving.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein




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