behave
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"There's a lack of understanding on how they should behave... on how they could help their child to blossom into the athlete that they should become."
From BBC • Jun. 26, 2026
However, the arrangement of atoms inside the material causes electrons to behave in ways normally associated with ferromagnets.
From Science Daily • Jun. 23, 2026
Greenspan believed financial institutions had a self interest in not taking risks that would wipe out shareholders; similarly, he thought they had natural incentives to behave ethically to preserve the value of their reputations.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 22, 2026
He called for letting Iran back into the pantheon of “good guys,” provided “they behave themselves.”
From Salon • Jun. 19, 2026
“What I fail to understand is how the Incorrigible children could behave so abominably, and yet all they care to criticize is my outfit!”
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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