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Recent Examples of misbehave And thanks to the survey, conducted between October 22 and 28, pet parents might give a sigh of relief that their animal isn't the only one that misbehaves. John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025 Several educators have also told USA TODAY over the last few years that students misbehave in class more often since the onset of the pandemic. Kayla Jimenez, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2025 On Friday afternoon, Epic Games sent out an email seeking to reassure parents who may have come across the news about the misbehaving AI character. ArsTechnica, 16 May 2025 What if Charlie gets mixed up with misbehaving kids, not murderous adults? Alison Herman, Variety, 8 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for misbehave
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Verb
  • Summer classes and programs are still underway in South Florida and the county’s school zone cameras are still active, just waiting to mail you a ticket for disobeying the speed zone.
    Cordell Jones July 6, Miami Herald, 6 July 2025
  • Her word was law and anyone who disobeyed it was punished.
    Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 27 June 2025
Verb
  • The passage of the 13th Amendment roughly six months later was the final legislation ensuring the freedom of all enslaved African Americans in the nation: both those in rebelling Confederate states and those belonging to the Union.
    Mackenzie Thomas, The Washington Examiner, 16 June 2025
  • But rank-and-file Democratic lawmakers rebelled and Newsom abandoned the effort.
    George Skelton, Mercury News, 3 June 2025

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“Misbehave.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misbehave. Accessed 14 Jul. 2025.

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