behoove

One would think, in order to rise to the level of a Supreme Court justice, it would behoove a person to be fond of a rigorous debate.

From Salon ● Apr. 22, 2026

Financially, it would behoove Moore to keep the trade specialized and therefore more lucrative for himself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2025

Should he decide to participate in any primary debates, it would behoove broadcasters to schedule them at his convenience for ratings purposes.

From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2023

But sleep is strange: Why would it behoove organisms to shut out the environment for hours and hours, making themselves vulnerable to predators and other dangers?

From Scientific American ● Jun. 16, 2023

Would it not behoove the Department of Homeland Security to add a name to their roster of dangerous individuals?

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers

In 2008, when it behooved the industry to echo the calls for change, hope and progress, that’s where they marshaled their resources.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2023

And so, with the team now dragging through its first prolonged slump of the season, it behooved coach Dave Hakstol’s group to start boosting its home mark any way it could.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 18, 2022

If you had a roof over your head, then it behooved you to share it with others, no matter the financial and spiritual cost—giving might make someone else, anyone else, better.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 25, 2018

Before obtaining more, it behooved me to ascertain the cause of Osgood’s death.

From Nature ● Mar. 20, 2018

It behooved them, therefore, to try to determine the legitimacy of the other claims.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

But after July 31, the two teams will not play again, behooving the Mariners to not let the early chances to beat the Astros go to waste.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 17, 2022

Straighter he stood, and had achieved some praise In other exercise, much more behooving A soldier's taste than merely dirt removing.

From Complete Poetical Works by Bret Harte

And again: Sweet, in whom all things behooving, Virtue, brightness, beauty, meet, Little troubles thee this loving, Thou art safe above it, sweet.

From Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature by Edward Tompkins McLaughlin

He assumed with her at once that she was saved, that he was in the way of being lost, and that his behooving was to listen to her meekly.

From The Lions of the Lord A Tale of the Old West by Harry Leon Wilson