behave
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He called for letting Iran back into the pantheon of “good guys,” provided “they behave themselves.”
From Salon • Jun. 19, 2026
“Many teachers and other professionals in schools feel that in order to get kids to behave, you have to have a credible threat,” London said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 18, 2026
Like chatbots, these AI systems don't always behave the same way twice, which makes them hard to predict.
From Barron's • Jun. 18, 2026
Bacterial swarms, crowds of people, and even groups of cells in living tissue behave similarly.
From Science Daily • Jun. 16, 2026
Nevertheless, in a given environment, animals of the same species will tend to behave in a similar way.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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