behave
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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
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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
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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
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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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