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to manage the actions of (oneself) in a particular way
if the children behave themselves properly and sit quietly during church, they'll get their ice cream afterward
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Recent Examples of behaving
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
3 July 2026
Without clear visibility into how AI systems are behaving, organizations risk creating environments where costs get out of control and accountability disappears.
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Shane Buckley,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2026
Being a pro athlete doesn’t exempt you from behaving respectfully in society.
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Anna Lazarus Caplan,
PEOPLE,
29 June 2026
That created the risk of the inverter and load behaving suboptimally under heavier draw.
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Michael Lydick,
PC Magazine,
29 June 2026
Treasury yields eased in the bond market after a report said inflation is behaving pretty much as economists expected.
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ABC News,
25 June 2026
Others depend on third-place permutations, favourable routes through the draw and several rounds of the favourites behaving like favourites.
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Amelie Claydon,
New York Times,
23 June 2026
To be absolutely clear, nobody, except maybe Melanie, is behaving honorably here, but a good Love Island story line isn’t measured in admirable behavior; it is measured in juice — and Melanie, Corbin, Kenzie, and Caleb have it.
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Kathleen Walsh,
Vulture,
16 June 2026
Verb
Once markets stop pricing free cash flow and start pricing a president’s next move, the bubble stops behaving like a discrete event with a beginning and an end, and starts behaving like a permanent condition.
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Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
3 July 2026
Without clear visibility into how AI systems are behaving, organizations risk creating environments where costs get out of control and accountability disappears.
—
Shane Buckley,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2026
Being a pro athlete doesn’t exempt you from behaving respectfully in society.
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Anna Lazarus Caplan,
PEOPLE,
29 June 2026
That created the risk of the inverter and load behaving suboptimally under heavier draw.
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Michael Lydick,
PC Magazine,
29 June 2026
Treasury yields eased in the bond market after a report said inflation is behaving pretty much as economists expected.
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ABC News,
25 June 2026
Others depend on third-place permutations, favourable routes through the draw and several rounds of the favourites behaving like favourites.
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Amelie Claydon,
New York Times,
23 June 2026
To be absolutely clear, nobody, except maybe Melanie, is behaving honorably here, but a good Love Island story line isn’t measured in admirable behavior; it is measured in juice — and Melanie, Corbin, Kenzie, and Caleb have it.
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Kathleen Walsh,
Vulture,
16 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for behaving
Adjective
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Forget about the ill-behaved, performative fans hoping to go viral on TikTok for unseemly behavior.
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For families There are a couple of (very well behaved) babies here during my stay, but no kids dive-bombing the pool, and the stairs around this maze of a property aren’t particularly stroller friendly.
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Demonstrators express frustration Protesters marching through Johannesburg’s city center Tuesday included young men carrying traditional fighting sticks and women of all ages.
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Dark figures were darting through the shadows—Germans were carrying sacks and pillows to their building.
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Across its 55,000-square-foot footprint, the $24 million building is composed of a learning center and classrooms, company orderly rooms, battalion planning space and secure equipment storage — and carries a plaque honoring the state’s 30th governor.
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That system has allowed plans to be widely circulated for public input, and for the leasing, permitting, and administration of plans to be predictable and orderly.
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Observers say the jury’s 10-2 vote in favor of acquitting Jonathan Rinderknecht was a major blow to Essayli’s office.
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The verdict was handed down on Monday acquitting Pino, 55, who was charged with second-degree manslaughter and vessel homicide for the crash that killed 17-year-old Lucy Fernandez and left another teen, Katy Puig, now 21, with life-changing injuries, according to NBC 6.
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While conducting surveillance, McCurnin spotted a man riding an electric scooter who matched the suspect’s description.
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Central Command shared images of sailors conducting nighttime operations, flight operations and maintaining an MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter aboard the vessel.
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The way Luke is handling the love triangle with Joy and Gen makes Nathan and Joe look like sage old men.
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Be careful when handling debris that may have blown into your yard.
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The pilot was then notified and the area surrounding Noble was cleared of passengers so that other flight attendants could assist in restraining him.
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With Sanders in front, still restraining the alligator with the catch pole, Pelosi came up behind it and tossed a rag over its eyes, the video showed.
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The production was built entirely with AI tools, with Madhvani writing the multilingual lyrics alongside co-creators and composing the music through Suno, a leading AI music generation platform.
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Legend has it that when an unsuspecting new man on the paper’s composing desk left out the agate type one day there were lots of problems for bettors and bookies across the city.
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