Example Sentences

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The researchers selected uranium, cerium, and cesium because each behaves differently during condensation.

From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 2026

Neoclassical economic theory assumes how this rational individual behaves in response to prices and incentives, and this forms a basis to model the economy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

As a result, the crystal behaves like a metal along one axis and like a dielectric material along the perpendicular axis, creating its exceptionally strong anisotropy.

From Science Daily • Jun. 1, 2026

The cast’s choices are like weather-balloon data that presage the disaster of the movie’s climax, when everyone behaves like an emotionally incontinent millennial.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

“Perfect. Look at how it behaves in the torchlight. That’s perfect.”

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson