behave
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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
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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
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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
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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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