behoove
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One would think, in order to rise to the level of a Supreme Court justice, it would behoove a person to be fond of a rigorous debate.
From Salon ● Apr. 22, 2026
It would behoove Europe to get with the program.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2025
But it might behoove the Seahawks to play as if they must win, and maybe use that to get off to a better start and not keep playing from behind.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2023
This is a major trust issue for a lot of couples, and a serious one, so it may also behoove you to see a marriage counselor to talk it out.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2023
Would it not behoove the Department of Homeland Security to add a name to their roster of dangerous individuals?
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
And so, with the team now dragging through its first prolonged slump of the season, it behooved coach Dave Hakstol’s group to start boosting its home mark any way it could.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 18, 2022
It would have behooved both author and reviewer to at least acknowledge that not all gods, and not all depictions of the Judeo-Christian god, are male.
From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2022
As much a shrewd businesswoman as an imaginative author, Redmond knew it behooved her to publish a sequel while the show was still hot, but the obstacles seemed insurmountable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2020
If you had a roof over your head, then it behooved you to share it with others, no matter the financial and spiritual cost—giving might make someone else, anyone else, better.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 25, 2018
It behooved them, therefore, to try to determine the legitimacy of the other claims.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
But after July 31, the two teams will not play again, behooving the Mariners to not let the early chances to beat the Astros go to waste.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 17, 2022
Straighter he stood, and had achieved some praise In other exercise, much more behooving A soldier's taste than merely dirt removing.
From Complete Poetical Works by Harte, Bret
And again: Sweet, in whom all things behooving, Virtue, brightness, beauty, meet, Little troubles thee this loving, Thou art safe above it, sweet.
From Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature by McLaughlin, Edward Tompkins
He assumed with her at once that she was saved, that he was in the way of being lost, and that his behooving was to listen to her meekly.
From The Lions of the Lord A Tale of the Old West by Wilson, Harry Leon
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