as in treated
to behave toward in a stated way
you need to be nice to your brother
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The woman had minor injuries and was treated at the scene, police said.—
Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
15 Mar. 2026 -
Deputies tried reviving him and called paramedics, who also treated the defendant.—
Jeff McDonald,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Mar. 2026
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Ballistics testing conducted by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation later confirmed that the gun Harrison had when he was arrested was the same modified firearm used in the killing, prosecutors said.—
CBS Atlanta Digital Team,
CBS News,
18 Mar. 2026
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His death was one of more than 1,000 nationally that an investigation led by The Associated Press identified as happening after police officers used physical force or weapons that were supposed to stop, but not kill, people.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
17 Mar. 2026
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Rose began his Mets broadcasting career in 1987 as a pregame and postgame host who occasionally handled play by play.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
19 Mar. 2026
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Tom McCoy, a former NACLO winner who is currently a competition organizer and computational linguistics researcher at Yale University, works to bridge the gap between how language is handled in large language models and how it’s described in linguistic theory.—
Emma R. Hasson,
Scientific American,
19 Mar. 2026
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“Been (to).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/been%20%28to%29. Accessed 20 Mar. 2026.
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