behave
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Both are clear that behaviour like that does not happen in isolation and that it is the environment tennis creates that makes parents behave this way.
From BBC • Jun. 26, 2026
Yet when exposed to an electric current, it appeared to behave more like a ferromagnet.
From Science Daily • Jun. 23, 2026
But shareholders who expect the Fed to respond after stocks have halved—as they did in 2007-2009—are unlikely to behave very differently from those who think prices could fall all the way to zero.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 23, 2026
He called for letting Iran back into the pantheon of “good guys,” provided “they behave themselves.”
From Salon • Jun. 19, 2026
“You must promise to behave well, and not cut up any pranks, and spoil our plans.”
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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