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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
Victoria Moorwood, Cincinnati Enquirer, 5 Nov. 2025
Some visitors behaving badly at the parks can add to the strain.
—Michael Salerno, AZCentral.com, 30 Oct. 2025
Hungry children have a harder time paying attention, behaving, and learning in school.
—Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
That’s how leaders are behaving right now.
—Fortune Editors, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2025
Anyone else in the room would expect to be arrested for behaving in such an indecent way in public, the man said.
—Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 26 Oct. 2025
So there was still a rigidity of behaving and conforming.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2025
Those surviving cells accumulated more genetic damage, and in some cases started behaving like cancer cells.
—Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2025
Look for light and shadow behaving naturally.
—Jennifer Jolly, USA Today, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
Gabbard denied behaving improperly and suggested the accusations were politically motivated.
—Victoria Moorwood, Cincinnati Enquirer, 5 Nov. 2025
Some visitors behaving badly at the parks can add to the strain.
—Michael Salerno, AZCentral.com, 30 Oct. 2025
Hungry children have a harder time paying attention, behaving, and learning in school.
—Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
That’s how leaders are behaving right now.
—Fortune Editors, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2025
Anyone else in the room would expect to be arrested for behaving in such an indecent way in public, the man said.
—Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 26 Oct. 2025
So there was still a rigidity of behaving and conforming.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2025
Those surviving cells accumulated more genetic damage, and in some cases started behaving like cancer cells.
—Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2025
Look for light and shadow behaving naturally.
—Jennifer Jolly, USA Today, 20 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for behaving
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China last tested its ICBM force in September 2024—its first since the 1980s—when a DF-31AG missile carrying a dummy warhead was fired toward international waters in the South Pacific, within the region's nuclear-free zone, according to a Newsweek map.—
Ryan Chan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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The Falcon 9's upper stage, meanwhile, continued carrying the 29 Starlink satellites toward LEO, where were deployed on schedule about an hour into flight.—
Josh Dinner,
Space.com,
6 Nov. 2025
Verb
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The first jury, by contrast, deliberated for days before acquitting Amiri of conspiracy, multiple deprivation-of-rights charges and convicting him of the single dog attack and records falsification.—
Nate Gartrell,
Mercury News,
19 Sep. 2025
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Jury leans toward convicting Sweet and brother Harry for manslaughter and acquitting everyone else, but can't reach unanimous verdicts.—
NEAL RUBIN,
Freep.com,
6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Reiner joined the writers’ room, an orderly place at first but eventually the loudest, most combative fourteen-by-twenty enclave in New York.—
David Denby,
New Yorker,
10 Nov. 2025
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The latest computer simulations offer a new explanation for why nature’s patterns are both orderly and beautifully imperfect, and the findings could reshape how scientists think about biological patterning and even inspire future biomaterials and smart surface designs.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
3 Nov. 2025
Verb
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The Senate is, as of Monday night stateside, conducting a series of votes for an agreement to reopen the government, though any deal would also have to be passed by the House of Representatives.—
Yeo Boon Ping,
CNBC,
11 Nov. 2025
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The courthouse is named after Osvaldo Soto, a Cuban-American lawyer who led the fight in the 1980s to repeal the county’s English-only ordinance that, among other things, stopped clerks from conducting courthouse weddings in Spanish.—
Douglas Hanks
November 10,
Miami Herald,
10 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Be careful when handling debris that may have blown into your yard.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
8 Nov. 2025
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With 40 grind settings and a 300 gram bean hopper, this electric grinder is capable of handling grinding for larger batches.—
Jack Byram,
Architectural Digest,
7 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Video shows one agent restraining the man, then dragging him around as another agent helps pin him to the ground.—
Zoe Sottile,
CNN Money,
3 Nov. 2025
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Taiwan, too, should keep enhancing its civil and military defenses while restraining its assertions of sovereignty in cross-strait affairs.—
STEPHEN WERTHEIM,
Foreign Affairs,
28 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Marco Beltrami is composing the score.—
Lexi Carson,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Oct. 2025
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Drilling in pursuit of natural gas and oil in Wyoming has shown that the sandstone rock composing the Lance Formation is very deep beneath the mummies, measuring more than 1,000 meters (over 3,200 feet).—
Paul C. Sereno,
The Conversation,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Behaving.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/behaving. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.
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