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behaved

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verb

past tense of behave

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of behaved
Adjective
Forget about the ill-behaved, performative fans hoping to go viral on TikTok for unseemly behavior. — Fred Katz, New York Times, 14 June 2026 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. — Sarah Leigh Bannerman, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Jan. 2026
Verb
Had one of the girls behaved that way, she probably would have been removed from the game. — Jonathan Alpert Outkick, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026 The vegetables’ changing moisture, texture and shape also meant no two instruments behaved exactly alike. — Spin Staff, SPIN, 5 Oct. 2026 The company has since disclosed several additional incidents where its models behaved in unintended ways, prompting industry researchers and government officials to call for additional oversight. — Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2026 OpenAI has paused training its latest models after agents searching federal websites behaved unexpectedly, including posting publicly available SEC information elsewhere and finding developer keys at the Education Department. — Bernard Condon, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2026 The team used molecular simulations to examine how lithium and chloride ions behaved in different electrolytes. — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2026 Frontline employees may simply have behaved according to the measures against which they were being judged. — Thomas Lim, Forbes.com, 24 Sep. 2026 Either properly discouraged by the police presence or too damned hot to fight, people largely behaved. — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 20 Sep. 2026 For a brief period, however, many Americans behaved as though being part of a society meant participating in it. — Steven Fulop, New York Daily News, 11 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for behaved
Adjective
  • The shooter’s parents were interviewed on Thursday and were cooperative with investigators, a senior law enforcement official briefed on the investigation told CNN.
    — Dalia Faheid, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Two law enforcement officials briefed on the matter said his mother has been cooperative with law enforcement so far in the investigation.
    — Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 16 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Simpson was tried for their murders and acquitted in October 1995.
    — Janelle Ash, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2026
  • The state Senate acquitted Paxton, and the Justice Department declined to pursue criminal charges.
    — Matthew Choi, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • Our community deserves a process that is fair, disciplined and accountable.
    — Letters to the Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Oct. 2026
  • Strict rules and expectations shaped children into responsible, disciplined people.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • During captive-carry testing, engineers can assess equipment carried by an aircraft before proceeding to more demanding flight demonstrations.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 21 Oct. 2026
  • The starting five that carried Atlanta to the playoffs last season — Nickeil Alexander-Walker, Dyson Daniels, Jalen Johnson, CJ McCollum and Onyeka Okongwu — returns.
    — Tyler Estep, AJC.com, 21 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • As the sun set on the gentlemanly era of relationship banking, Wall Street needed to recruit huge numbers of the most talented—not just well-bred or best-connected—bankers to keep up.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 May 2026
Verb
  • Corrections officials said the officers forced Olivas back into his cell and restrained him.
    — Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 15 Oct. 2026
  • In the realm of celebrities, Leoni crafted a number of custom designs for Hollywood step and repeats that leaned streamlined, unfussy, and tastefully restrained—often in her go-to shades of white or black.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 15 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • Her amiable New Yorkers have tougher things to say to each other than ever before.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2026
  • But the underlying difficulties of the three Ts, where the leaders seem to have fundamentally incompatible agendas, remain the thread beneath the ostensibly polite and occasionally amiable conversations.
    — Rana Mitter, The Conversation, 21 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Just 39% of Americans say AI has a positive impact on society, compared with 44% who believe its impact is negative, according to a national survey conducted this month by my company, Outward Intelligence.
    — Will Johnson, Time, 21 Oct. 2026
  • The experiment, conducted by computer scientists at Binghamton University in New York, exposed a security weakness in large language models (LLMs) used to plan robotic actions.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 21 Oct. 2026

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“Behaved.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/behaved. Accessed 25 Oct. 2026.

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