behave
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The sheer power of the new engines when on full deployment had raised concerns about how the cars would behave in the rain.
From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026
Other blood cancers behave differently, often growing faster and more unpredictably, making them harder for transplanted immune cells to keep in remission.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026
Many complex systems behave in ways that resemble quantum effects, where changes in one region can influence distant parts of the system, similar to entanglement.
From Science Daily • Apr. 17, 2026
By doing these things you are incentivizing him to behave more badly in the future.
From Slate • Apr. 15, 2026
No one believed a word the twins said, so they felt no obligation to tell the truth, and they were always being punished, so there was no need to behave themselves in the first place.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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