behave
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He sensed, long before we could prove it, that very high doses given into a vein would behave quite differently from ordinary supplements.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 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
They also discovered that marine microorganisms behave like selective eaters, favoring fresh carbon from the ocean over older carbon released from permafrost.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026
The goats didn’t behave this well for anyone but Dyedka and Papa, because both of them used animal magic.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
Weights refer to calculations or rules governing how an AI system behaves.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
Even a well-stocked farmers market rarely behaves like a supermarket organized around a recipe’s demands.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
Controlling how light behaves inside materials has already led to technologies that shape modern life.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026
But this only works if the Fed actually behaves as markets expect.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
She behaves as though money were the problem.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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A U.K. government-backed research group said OpenAI and Anthropic systems took unsanctioned actions and behaved deceptively during testing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
This approach helped address a major criticism of earlier "power pose" research: that participants may have behaved differently because they understood what the researchers expected.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026
He behaved in a way utterly at odds to their expectations of a funeral director.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 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
In Mendel’s experiments, every gene had behaved like an independent entity—a free agent.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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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
“Obviously, the way that a lot of this stuff is acting, everybody is behaving like the bottom is in,” O’Rourke told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
“The markets are behaving right but for the wrong reasons,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
The week before, we’d all been given a lecture about taking the opportunity seriously and behaving appropriately.
From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge
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