Example Sentences

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Lim envisions a future in which organ transplant patients, or those with autoimmune diseases, receive therapies that only treat the specific regions of the body where the immune system is misbehaving.

From Science Daily • Dec. 5, 2024

There are a couple of false starts: A drum sample isn't firing and an autotune effect is misbehaving.

From BBC • Jun. 15, 2023

Some household gadget is misbehaving and you need help.

From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2022

I have seen a similar question from the perspective of servers and owners, but I am looking for your opinion on when your friend’s kid is misbehaving.

From Slate • Mar. 9, 2020

The younger lady looked down on her companion with something of the calm expert attention that a plumber gives to a tap that is misbehaving, and like a plumber refrained from precipitate action.

From Secret Places of the Heart by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)