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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of behave.

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Examples

  • And I think that sending a signal that we respect the aspirations of the Iranian people, but that we also have certain expectations in terms of how a international actor behaves, is … (CROSSTALK)

    Matthew Yglesias » A Team of Coreligionists 2009

  • Meanwhile McCain behaves like an unhappy child, makes a multitude of foreign policy blunders, and whines about everything Obama does.

    A McCain Iraq Chronology in Question - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • Amazing how such a supposed “HERO” like McCain behaves like a Lapdog for his political masters Bush and Cheney.

    McCain Talks About P.O.W. Experiences - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • Pallottino had claimed that it was a demonstrative but obviously this is just an ad hoc idea based on Latin iste 'that', hardly likely given that Etruscan is conclusively unrelated to Latin, that this value is not born from the textual contexts themselves and that the word behaves more like a noun than a demonstrative based on all that we now know about Etruscan grammar.

    Archive 2009-05-01 2009

  • Pallottino had claimed that it was a demonstrative but obviously this is just an ad hoc idea based on Latin iste 'that', hardly likely given that Etruscan is conclusively unrelated to Latin, that this value is not born from the textual contexts themselves and that the word behaves more like a noun than a demonstrative based on all that we now know about Etruscan grammar.

    Etruscan inscription REE 59,1993 2009

  • You have a very odd idea of parsimony; in my universe adding in an entity to ensure that the universe bahaves the way that it behaves is rather unparsimonious.

    A New Weapon Against Freedom and ID: Volksverhetzung 2007

  • You have a very odd idea of parsimony; in my universe adding in an entity to ensure that the universe bahaves the way that it behaves is rather unparsimonious.

    A New Weapon Against Freedom and ID: Volksverhetzung 2007

  • When Britain behaves unilaterally, it decides to pay off 10% of the the debt of the Third World.

    09/27/2004 2004

  • Each chemical separation is followed by a measurement of the activity of the products obtained, and in this way it is possible to determine how the active substance behaves from the chemical viewpoint.

    Marie Curie - Nobel Lecture 1966

  • He buys and gloats over every silly detective story that was ever written; practises disguises and making himself up, as he calls it; takes lessons in conjuring; haunts the police courts; consorts with criminals -- in short, behaves like a great overgrown child in his own native city, where the name of Bundercombe -- from the feminine standpoint -- realizes everything that stands for freedom and greatness.

    An Amiable Charlatan 1906

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