behave
Example Sentences
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Insufficient airflow control can prevent the vortex from forming, causing the fire to behave more like a conventional burn.
From Science Daily • Jun. 5, 2026
Judges are expected to behave with decorum while on the bench, but the profession doesn’t demand that they forfeit free-speech rights in retirement.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
The findings provide new insight into how quantum materials behave and could help researchers develop smaller, faster, and more energy-efficient technologies that harvest power from their surroundings.
From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2026
"Once you're being paid by the public purse to represent them, you've got a duty to behave in a certain way," Kenyon said.
From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026
Eventually she becomes at ease, convinced, at least enough, that me sitting in her seat hasn’t caused me to behave in any abnormal or dangerous ways, and that I don’t plan to ransack her workstation.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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