behave

Example Sentences

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Measuring how time behaves on distant worlds provides new tests of Einstein's theories of special and general relativity.

From Science Daily

If a company behaved this way, we’d call it a governance problem.

From The Wall Street Journal

He also behaved this way after my mother’s open-heart surgery, when we attempted to prepare her home for her return from the hospital, even though he had initially agreed with the plan.

From MarketWatch

There is also a developing field of research into epigenetics, which asks whether the experience of trauma by one generation can show up in later generations through changes in the way our genes behave.

From BBC

He focused on incentives — how managers are paid, how boards behave, how capital is allocated — because incentives shape outcomes more reliably than projections.

From MarketWatch