behave
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MarketWatch: Bitcoin is trading well below its 2025 high, so why does it behave like a speculative investment right now?
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026
My sister Ruth, who was seven years older, exposed me to psychology—why people behave the way they do.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
Their findings suggest that a rare group of brain cells, known as immature neurons, may behave differently in people who resist Alzheimer's symptoms.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026
"That will change the way they behave," he said.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
This is exactly how Florentine women are taught not to behave, and it is also how Leonardo himself taught not to paint them.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
A coyote that fails to exhibit fear toward humans or behaves aggressively should be reported to wildlife officials, authorities say.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
These effects could provide valuable clues about how matter behaves at the molecular scale, while also offering new opportunities to control quantum systems.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
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
By looking at the collective motion of groups of atoms, physicists could predict the way matter behaves.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
If Earth behaved like a completely solid blue marble, its center of mass would line up with its geometric center.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
Another component behaved more like a brake on the cell's contractile machinery.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 5, 2026
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
Ess had never, in all those sleeps, behaved quite like this.
From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder
A park spokesperson told Omroep Brabant, a local media outlet, that the leopards were behaving naturally and they would not be euthanised.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
The filing lays out risks specific to an industry that has faced a string of reports in recent months of AI systems behaving in unexpected and harmful ways.
From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026
Some companies have banned agents from accessing their platforms and behaving in this way.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
But does behaving like a human actually convince people that a machine has consciousness?
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
“But I'm not, you know. I’m a perfectly ordinary, harmless bloke. And I think you are behaving splendidly over all this, perfectly splendidly. I take off my hat to you, I really do.”
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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