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Recent Examples of misbehave 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 This encounter really does feel like an adult lady college professor expressing her disappointment in a misbehaving undergrad. Sara Netzley, EW.com, 24 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for misbehave
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Verb
  • Thousands of people were arrested by the LAPD and other agencies for failure to disperse, disobeying a lawful order and other minor offenses following the 2020 murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, but both the Los Angeles city attorney’s office and former Dist.
    Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2025
  • Federal judges ruled Thursday that Alabama intentionally discriminated against Black residents when the state disobeyed court orders to draw a second Black-majority congressional district.
    Cheyanne M. Daniels, The Hill, 9 May 2025
Verb
  • Wait, there’s a both-sides approach to the company and the workers rebelling against it?
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 25 June 2025
  • Newsweek Contributors Debate For decades, Iranians have organized, protested, and rebelled for greater freedom.
    Nuri Kino, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 June 2025

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“Misbehave.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misbehave. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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