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behave

[bih-heyv] / bɪˈheɪv /
VERB
function
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As Thursday’s admittedly distorted consumer-price index report showed, inflation simply isn’t behaving badly.

From The Wall Street Journal

We reached for bread that pulls apart like buttery clouds, cakes that lean dense and generous, desserts that feel like heirlooms but behave with a little mischief.

From Salon

By carefully tracking how neutrinos behave, scientists were able to rule out the existence of a single sterile neutrino with 95% certainty.

From Science Daily

They discovered that the TCR behaves like a jack-in-the-box, staying compact until it encounters an antigen or another suspicious particle, at which point it rapidly opens.

From Science Daily

"This confirms that Ce2Zr2O7 behaves as a true quantum spin ice, a special class of quantum spin liquids in three dimensions."

From Science Daily