behavior

Example Sentences

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In many cases, however, adding salt may simply be a routine behavior rather than a response to taste.

From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2026

This sort of change in behavior would hardly be terrible; it would generate more income for workers, more output for employers and more revenue for the government in the form of base-pay taxation.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026

California state law defines a “law enforcement gang” as a group of officers “who engage in a pattern of on-duty behavior that intentionally violates the law or fundamental principles of professional policing.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026

In a survey of more than 1,000 active retail traders commissioned by Tastytrade, an options brokerage, 43% of respondents said they had changed their behavior to avoid triggering the PDT rule.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

Social behavior goes beyond the ability to activate the correct muscles or decode the right spoken sounds.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman