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behave

[bih-hayv] / bɪˈheɪv /
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These particles could align with Earth's magnetic field and behave like microscopic compass needles.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

“That has absolutely not happened with chatbots because they don’t behave that way.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

“I look at it as, if you think you are powerless, you will behave in a powerless way,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

The resulting triangle would not behave like one drawn on a sheet of paper.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

I knew how to behave at a party, and especially one for birthdays.

From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals

Plus, it’s inherently funny when a body engineered to function with extreme precision behaves ineptly.

From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2026

Imagine a relatively uneventful in which the Fed raises rates, explains its reasoning convincingly; Treasury yields settle; inflation expectations remain contained; the dollar behaves normally; and equities absorb the decision without disorder.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

Watch the mushrooms more than the clock; a mix containing oyster mushrooms behaves differently than a pan full of white buttons.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026

OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki acknowledged there was still uncertainty about how a new model behaves once released.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

Hoping your face behaves, not letting it betray anything.

From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss

Speaking to Spanish sports radio station COPE, he said the club behaved impeccably and pursued him properly from the first approach.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

Hours later, following the Eagles’ 27-7 loss to the Bears, Sirianni expressed regret for how he behaved.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

But in a short period of time, they adapted “because very quickly they saw how they behaved and they saw there was no incidents.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

“This is not how Navatek behaved or conducted business before I sold the company to Martin Kao,” Loui wrote to ProPublica.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

Beowulf remarked that Lady Constance already behaved as if every day were her birthday, and all three children grew wide-eyed at the thought of what she might be like on the actual day.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

Rather than behaving like a lamp illuminating everything around it, the jet acts more like a concentrated beam that causes gas to glow along its path.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026

"Now, I think it's Mediapart that needs to be told to put on its Kevlar vest, because there will obviously be a response to the way they are behaving," she said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

Bass said her review would be a top-down evaluation that also scrutinizes the roles of dispatchers, supervisors and others involved in responding to reports of people behaving erratically.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

It took investigations, trials, discovery, all of the tools of modern litigation, to get documents, interview witnesses, to do the fact-building that exposed just how bad the industry had been behaving.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

Later, Ranyinudo told her, “You are no longer behaving like an Americanah!” and despite herself, Ifemelu felt pleased to hear this.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie




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