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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
Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 2 Jan. 2026
The latter already behaved well, and the former does not care.
—Judith Martin, Mercury News, 20 Dec. 2025
Fewer Buyers, Slower Decisions Pending mergers usually turn its players into hardcore conservatives (no pun intended), but Paramount and Warners abandoned their specialty labels long ago and it’s been years since either behaved like real festival buyers.
—Dana Harris-Bridson, IndieWire, 9 Dec. 2025
Human lung cells behaved similarly, with reduced viability, higher oxidative stress and the activation of inflammatory pathways associated with chronic respiratory disease.
—New Atlas, 3 Dec. 2025
Those disclaimers aside, the tape action itself has been reassuring and largely in keeping with how stocks have behaved in the months following 15%-or-greater corrections such as the S & P 500 suffered from February into April.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 29 Nov. 2025
But Halligan believes the Dead behaved like great founders long before Silicon Valley formalized the playbook.
—Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 25 Nov. 2025
In exposing these cells to forms of stress that damage DNA — such as chemicals that mimic UV exposure — the scientists observed how the cells behaved inside their natural setting.
—Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2025
During the subsequent custody battle, Farrow alleged that Allen had behaved inappropriately with their daughter Dylan Farrow.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 13 Oct. 2025
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At low electron densities, excitons behaved normally.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for behaved
Adjective
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Choose cooperative words to move stalled conversations forward.—
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The music industry has been racing to harness the latest developments in AI and protect its valuable catalogs, gradually shifting from a hostile approach to a more cooperative stance.—
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Her seat was initially filed by the appointment of Melinda De La Vega in 2024 as an interim council member, but in the November 2025 elections De La Vega instead ran for a different seat under the expectation that Pacheco might be acquitted.—
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Manly-Williams was a star witness against ex-Antioch K9 officer Morteza Amiri, who was convicted of siccing his dog on a man without cause, but acquitted of conspiracy and civil rights charges.—
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His reverence for patient, disciplined cooking can be traced back to his time cooking in Italy and with pasta whisperer Craig Richards.—
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People might describe them as resourceful, goal-oriented, disciplined, ambitious, and competitive.—
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Middleton first carried the Small Hudson bag from DeMellier in a rich mocha brown while attending Christmas Morning Service at Sandringham Estate.—
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Bison have carried their stories, teachings, and responsibilities for centuries.—
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Deputies said initial statements claimed he had been kidnapped and robbed at gunpoint by two unknown suspects who then allegedly restrained him and set the vehicle on fire.—
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Kerr had to be restrained by Payton and assistant coaches Terry Stotts and Kris Weems.—
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Set in a perpetually sunny, idealized England vaguely between the wars, The Code of the Woosters concerns the misadventures of man-about-town Bertie Wooster (stupid, amiable, rich) and his impeccably helpful valet Jeeves.—
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Thanks to amiable year-round weather apart from the heat, some choose to live part-time (or full-time) on their boats.—
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The poll, conducted between December 21, 2025, to January 6, 2026, surveyed 808 Marylanders.—
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Resilience has now flown four of those; the capsule also conducted Crew-1, SpaceX first operational astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS) for NASA, as well as Inspiration4 and Polaris Dawn, the company's first and most recent private crew launches to Earth orbit, respectively.—
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For starters, the applicable standard of review—meaning how the Ninth Circuit will evaluate Wilken’s ruling—is deferential to Wilken as the trial judge.—
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But under that deferential standard, the District Court’s ‘plausible’ (actually, quite careful) factfinding must survive.—
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“Behaved.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/behaved. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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