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misbehave

[mis-bi-hayv] / ˌmɪs bɪˈheɪv /


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He explained that people might misbehave if the cameras were present.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

They may even feel emboldened to misbehave again.

From Slate ● Jun. 8, 2026

The saga began in 2021, when WP lawmaker Raeesah Khan claimed in parliament that she had witnessed police misbehave towards a sexual assault victim.

From BBC ● Jan. 15, 2026

Prodigy City is located in what was formerly Thailand, where the series was filmed, giving every character, human and otherwise, plenty of space to hide and misbehave.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2025

Will she kick me out and leave me in the street if I misbehave?

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar

Forty-seven years later, we see artificial intelligence making such decisions with too little thought from the humans who will likely have to accept the financial fallout if the model misbehaves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

In addition, he said he wanted to see an end to Section 21 evictions, which occur when a tenant misbehaves or the landlord wishes to stop renting.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2022

In addition to lights, you can even set one up to do something handy like remotely power-cycling your home router when it inevitably misbehaves — even without having to get up from the couch.

From The Verge ● Jun. 24, 2022

Facebook and Google must answer to new cops on the beat – a group of five fresh Washington regulators at the Federal Trade Commission who have the power to punish Silicon Valley if it misbehaves.

From Seattle Times ● May 4, 2018

Sometimes, instead of reporting false pains, the brain misbehaves in other ways.

From Outwitting Our Nerves A Primer of Psychotherapy by Josephine A. Jackson

The Mogwai and his misbehaved progeny debuted in the 1984 holiday classic “Gremlins” and returned in the 1990 follow-up, “Gremlins 2: The New Batch.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

Ministers are currently considering a previous committee report which recommended the Senedd introduce a "recall" procedure which would give voters the chance to remove MS's who had misbehaved.

From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2025

The latest developments in the ongoing tribal dispute come on the heels of the backlash Noem faced for writing about killing a hunting dog that misbehaved in her latest book.

From Seattle Times ● May 11, 2024

They also said Mr. Crumbley, now 17, had misbehaved in jail, calling “into question whether this defendant can ever be rehabilitated.”

From New York Times ● Jul. 27, 2023

It wasn’t that when Mami was gone we misbehaved more.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago

In the blog, OpenAI detailed examples of its AI models misbehaving so they could achieve a task or succeed in a test.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

At FIU, a training on classroom management “largely discourages” teachers from issuing consequences to misbehaving students.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

Why do boards keep giving misbehaving CEOs second chances?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

A top lawmaker from Australia's far-right One Nation party has grabbed headlines after exploding at a misbehaving dog as he was grilled on live TV.

From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026

For some odd reason, these stories of fighting and misbehaving made her excited.

From "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" by William Kamkwamba




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