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behave

[bih-heyv] / bɪˈheɪv /
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"He would play heavy metal first thing in the morning at 6am on the days when he would behave badly," she said.

From BBC Sep. 10, 2026

It is difficult to predict how much one dollar will be worth decades from now and how the market will behave in a given year.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 7, 2026

Worshipers sat on long wooden benches under a bamboo-and-steel roof, ceiling fans turning slowly overhead and loudspeakers crackling with reminders to be kind and to behave well.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 6, 2026

Tournaments are pursuing younger audiences accustomed to the continuous movement and noise of other professional sports, challenging traditions that have long governed how spectators behave.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 6, 2026

If you ever do, you should behave as you would if you met an enraged rhinoceros out in the bush—climb up the nearest tree and stay there until it has gone away.

From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl

In this version of the story, A.I. stops being a tool and acts as a being that behaves in accordance with its own worldview.

From Salon Sep. 12, 2026

OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki acknowledged there was still uncertainty about how a new model behaves once released.

From Barron's Sep. 3, 2026

With a larger sample, astronomers may be able to learn much more about how dark matter behaves and how it is distributed.

From Science Daily Aug. 24, 2026

For cosmology, gravity determines how matter behaves across enormous distances.

From Science Daily Aug. 18, 2026

You get in that bed while my foots behaves.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

If the young Sun behaved in a similar way, Airapetian proposes that these energetic particles could have triggered chemical reactions in Earth's atmosphere that helped warm the planet.

From Science Daily Sep. 2, 2026

Warsh set aside one of the better arguments for patience when he dismissed moderate growth in wages, which in the Fed’s conventional models is a sign inflation should be better behaved over time.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

"So far, I think Russia's behaved quite well, having to do with the Strait of Hormuz," he said.

From Barron's Aug. 27, 2026

Today shows them to be one of the worst behaved.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

“I behaved no better than he did. I should have held my tongue. With Ellidyr,” he added, “that’s not easy to do.”

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander

That’s what “nuclear deterrence” is all about; the possession of nuclear weapons deters others from behaving aggressively.

From Slate Sep. 10, 2026

For still others, 9/11 remains most powerfully a story about innocent lives lost and ordinary people behaving with extraordinary courage.

From Salon Sep. 8, 2026

He says those sourcing fake versions are in effect behaving as lab rats without any medical oversight.

From BBC Sep. 4, 2026

The pattern points to the limbic system behaving more like an integrated network than a collection of unrelated structures.

From Science Daily Aug. 31, 2026

Ever since we’d left, you’d been behaving so differently from before.

From "The Bridge Home" by Padma Venkatraman




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