behave
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Given the average age of runners is over 40, Fabre said he expects people to behave well and be safe on the course to enjoy the beautiful landscape.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
In November 2025, the Football Association had charged Palace with failing to ensure that supporters did not behave in an improper, offensive, abusive or provocative way.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Liquid iron in Earth's outer core can behave in surprising ways.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
If you don’t behave properly, are you going to have a sound sleep?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
I wished Mike would not behave so terribly to Cohn, though.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
Weights refer to calculations or rules governing how an AI system behaves.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
Even a well-stocked farmers market rarely behaves like a supermarket organized around a recipe’s demands.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
Researchers also say there is a lot unknown about cyclospora, which behaves differently and is more difficult to track than other foodborne bacteria like E. Coli or salmonella.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
The U.S. says the cash will be freed up only on the condition that Tehran behaves itself, including by keeping the strait open.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
And yet, if ever I don’t like the way someone behaves, out he goes!
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
The teenager has been described as quiet and well behaved by family members in local media.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
A U.K. government-backed research group said OpenAI and Anthropic systems took unsanctioned actions and behaved deceptively during testing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
A theoretical model developed by Marco Schiró, Research Scientist at Collège de France, and his team supported the experimental findings and helped explain how photons behaved inside the device.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026
But he behaved as if he’d spent a childhood surviving hardscrabble East Coast streets and was scornful of bourgeois diction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
Ma Charles behaved as if she didn’t hear and that in itself was funny, but I didn’t dare crack a smile.
From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia
Birds and insects may even begin behaving as though night has arrived.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
But the yen has also been behaving oddly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Birds and other animals, bewildered by unforeseen night, start behaving strangely.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
They do not explain why Washington could borrow at a discount for 40 years while behaving like this.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
“I think you’d better listen to me instead of behaving in this uncontrolled way,” he said.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
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