behave
Example Sentences
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Insufficient airflow control can prevent the vortex from forming, causing the fire to behave more like a conventional burn.
From Science Daily • Jun. 5, 2026
"Once you're being paid by the public purse to represent them, you've got a duty to behave in a certain way," Kenyon said.
From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026
New findings from Fox Chase Cancer Center, presented at the American Association for Cancer Research annual meeting, suggest that melanoma does not behave the same way throughout the aging process.
From Science Daily • May 31, 2026
I caught the bug not by reading code but by noticing that the output didn’t match how a rational retiree should behave.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026
That was Grandmother, and no one expected her to behave any differently.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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