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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 behaved
Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 21 Oct. 2024
Then in the second episode, having behaved like a cad to Isabella for 20-ish minutes, Bobbie goes off on a rant.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Oct. 2024
Bosses are often just as poorly behaved.
—Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2024
His lawyer, Howard King, claims that Sophy's lawsuit is a response to a complaint filed by Young with the Osteopathic Medical Board of California, alleging that the doctor behaved unprofessionally during the aforementioned divorce proceedings.
—Christian Holub, EW.com, 11 Oct. 2024
Likewise, a woman in our neighborhood had a dog years ago that behaved aggressively toward my partner’s dog.
—Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 10 Oct. 2024
Even when they are absurdly badly behaved.
—Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024
In other words, the more fields there were, and the more entanglement, the closer space-time behaved to its idealized, classical version.
—Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
Verb
These long simulations, each running for thousands of model years, allowed the researchers to examine how El Niño and La Niña might have behaved in ancient Earth conditions.
—Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 21 Oct. 2024
Then in the second episode, having behaved like a cad to Isabella for 20-ish minutes, Bobbie goes off on a rant.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Oct. 2024
Bosses are often just as poorly behaved.
—Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2024
His lawyer, Howard King, claims that Sophy's lawsuit is a response to a complaint filed by Young with the Osteopathic Medical Board of California, alleging that the doctor behaved unprofessionally during the aforementioned divorce proceedings.
—Christian Holub, EW.com, 11 Oct. 2024
Likewise, a woman in our neighborhood had a dog years ago that behaved aggressively toward my partner’s dog.
—Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 10 Oct. 2024
Even when they are absurdly badly behaved.
—Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024
In other words, the more fields there were, and the more entanglement, the closer space-time behaved to its idealized, classical version.
—Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for behaved
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The cooperative made distributions to its members totaling $2,478,477, or $0.16 per outstanding membership unit, during the quarter.Quartz Bot, Quartz, 12 Nov. 2024
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The researchers are careful to point out that this method was intended to work only with cooperative participants.Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2024
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The sentiment being more important than the form, Miss Manners thinks Persons A and B both acquitted themselves most graciously.Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024
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Wallace, one of Hernandez’s two co-defendants in the Lloyd murder case, is convicted of accessory to murder after the fact and acquitted of murder.Eric Levenson, CNN, 21 Oct. 2024
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Consider Mindfulness Techniques Mindfulness is a disciplined and focused mental training exercise rooted in Eastern traditions.Sophie Okolo, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
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Haley cautioned the Trump campaign to remain disciplined and focused on the issues.Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 31 Oct. 2024
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The White House Offer would lead customers to buy other Microsoft products that ran on Azure, the company’s cloud platform, which carried additional charges based on how much storage space and computing power the customer used.Renee Dudley, ProPublica, 15 Nov. 2024
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The Knights, led by fellow Sharks prospect Sam Dickinson, carried a nine-game win streak into Friday and had an overall record of 13-4-0-0.Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024
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Reports indicate that the soldiers were restrained and shot at close range, reflecting an alarming, growing trend of executions of Ukrainian prisoners of war by Russian troops.Katya Soldak, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
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Quite the elegant dram, but not restrained.Tony Sachs, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
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Although some leagues were more amiable to streaming since the last time DFL negotiated media rights, the media and tech landscape has changed dramatically in the last six years.Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 19 Sep. 2024
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The Half Moon Bay weigh-off had started in 1974, when the California town barely edged out Circleville, Ohio, in an amiable contest for the fictitious title of pumpkin capital of the world.Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 12 Oct. 2024
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The operation, conducted on-site southeast of Aberdeen, marks a significant milestone for offshore wind technology.Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 4 Oct. 2024
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The margin of error for the total sample, conducted this spring, was plus or minus 5 percentage points at the 95% confidence interval.Steve Banker, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
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Wilken has rejected the NCAA’s portrayal of amateurism as inherently different and special, and thus more deserving of deferential antitrust treatment, than other businesses.Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 5 Sep. 2024
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Brenna is hip and intrusive, while Muir is deferential to a fault.Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 17 July 2024
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“Behaved.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/behaved. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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