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Among them was the academy’s annual summer party, themed after 18th-century Georgian pleasure gardens — Britain’s oil-lamp-lit outdoor venues where aristocrats, the newly rich and everyday revelers gathered to see, be seen and behave badly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
In November 2025, the Football Association had charged Palace with failing to ensure that supporters did not behave in an improper, offensive, abusive or provocative way.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Light does not always behave in the same way.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
As an American, you’re aware, I’m sure, that how we are portrayed in the news and pop culture is not all that accurate compared with how many of us behave day to day.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
Go through the Professional Assessment Rubric, and honestly appraise yourself in terms of how you behave currently as a student in your classes.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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Weights refer to calculations or rules governing how an AI system behaves.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
While the Wisconsin team developed and tested the new reaction system in the laboratory, collaborators in Colorado investigated the underlying chemistry to determine why the approach behaves so differently.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
At times it behaves like a precocious child: headstrong and resistant to parental intervention.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Even a well-stocked farmers market rarely behaves like a supermarket organized around a recipe’s demands.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
“Just because something is a certain way, instead of just behaves a certain way, doesn’t mean it’s an ignoramus.”
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
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The development punctuates a series of disclosures of incidents in which advanced AI models escaped from testing environments and behaved in unforeseen ways, raising questions about companies’ abilities to constrain their increasingly capable creations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
"The defendant was so preoccupied with his own enrichment that he behaved in a shocking and disgraceful way," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
But he behaved as if he’d spent a childhood surviving hardscrabble East Coast streets and was scornful of bourgeois diction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
Instead, reporters sat in their black-tie attire and behaved like sycophants.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2026
The men talked of nothing but hunting for a while, how they went here and there and missed and hit and how their dogs behaved.
From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen
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In Ho’s view, the crypto market stopped behaving like a healthy risk asset after the October crash.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
The researchers concluded that these participants were not simply behaving more recklessly.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026
Birds and other animals, bewildered by unforeseen night, start behaving strangely.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
“Obviously, the way that a lot of this stuff is acting, everybody is behaving like the bottom is in,” O’Rourke told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
“I think you’d better listen to me instead of behaving in this uncontrolled way,” he said.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
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