behooves
Example Sentences
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So it behooves investors to sell some shares of companies in the ETF.
From Barron's ● May 15, 2026
“It behooves investors to at least offer a little skepticism when there is such a broad consensus that everything will go well,” said Steve Sosnick, chief strategist at Interactive Brokers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 4, 2026
Opportunities such as this come along rarely, and it behooves retirees and near-retirees to seriously consider it for a portion of their retirement assets.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 4, 2025
His sensible guru era suggests that Schwarzenegger believes it’s temperance rather than bile that behooves an elder statesman and that the nation will eventually return to its senses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2023
Dr. Trefusis says it behooves me to remind myself of the heroics of men who seek the impossible in ships.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
