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behaving

VERB
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"We're starting to block the ones who aren't behaving themselves, but we'll see how that goes."

From Barron's • Jun. 22, 2026

Suddenly, a simple dinner party starts behaving like a small capital project.

From Salon • Jun. 22, 2026

At the same time, tau may begin behaving abnormally.

From Science Daily • Jun. 19, 2026

The details of Stalin’s failure to mount a horse in Red Square or Churchill’s comments about Clement Attlee reveal legendary Allied figures behaving not so legendarily.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 17, 2026

And throughout the whole beginning of the service, Ma would peer down the pew to make sure we were behaving, which was hard because we always sat in the row with the stinky Thomases.

From "Patina" by Jason Reynolds



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