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behave

[bih-heyv] / bɪˈheɪv /
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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

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

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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