How to Use behavioral in a Sentence

behavioral

adjective
  • That’s the behavioral side of the equation, Grasman said.
    Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2023
  • People need both a safe place to live and behavioral health care to succeed.
    Jim Vargas, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2023
  • The European Union cleared the deal with behavioral remedies in May.
    Katharine Gemmell, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Jan Hoffman writes about behavioral health and health law.
    Jan Hoffman, New York Times, 21 June 2023
  • Since then, some studies have found a link between the dyes and behavioral issues.
    Korin Miller, Health, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Mann, who worked in behavioral health, had four children.
    Laura Barcella, Peoplemag, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The line offers a range of services for people between the ages of 5 and 23 with behavioral or mental health needs.
    Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Over that five and a half year time span, paramedics used the drug overwhelmingly to deal with behavioral issues.
    Mallory Moench, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Nov. 2022
  • That money must be spent on behavioral health and drug treatment.
    Ovetta Wiggins, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2023
  • And that’s our way to contribute to consumer behavioral change.
    Fortune Editors, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2023
  • That doesn’t mean D.C. should set aside its plans for the behavioral health facility — quite the contrary.
    Editorial Board, Washington Post, 21 June 2024
  • The fire department’s team sends a clinician with an EMT to behavioral health calls.
    Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Catnip is a common herb of the mint family and can cause behavioral changes in cats, according to petmd.com.
    Chris Sims, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Apr. 2024
  • The article states there are many reasons why a solar eclipse may spark behavioral changes.
    Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 8 Apr. 2024
  • For some kids, the trauma of an eviction can cause behavioral problems, said Morellis-Wolfe.
    Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The study could inform the state’s approach to expanding its behavioral health system.
    Angela Hart, Anchorage Daily News, 24 June 2023
  • Later, Priscilla Carter, a school behavioral health specialist at the time, called the student down to her office.
    Katherine Kokal, USA TODAY, 27 July 2023
  • The results suggest that behavioral changes – and not just weight loss – are what matter for improving health.
    Essence, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The researchers conducted a behavioral test to see how each species of spider responded to light.
    Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Newsom said some of the cuts need to be made, including a one-time $426 million trim to children and youth behavioral health initiatives.
    David Caraccio, Sacramento Bee, 10 May 2024
  • The analysis is now based on four quarters of behavioral data.
    Deena Shanker, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2024
  • The grant is meant to fund training for staff to help students with their behavioral and mental health needs and reduce the reliance on punitive discipline.
    Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 8 Mar. 2023
  • In addition, the budget would end cost sharing for up to three mental health or behavioral health visits per year.
    Chris Megerian, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2023
  • With computer vision tools, mouse behavioral tests can run in a fraction of the time that would be required with human observers.
    Popular Science, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Allen said challenges remain in behavioral health in his email to employees.
    Ben Botkin, oregonlive, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Some studies suggest that the behavioral changes in mice may be caused by the immune response to the parasite, which causes inflammation in the brain.
    Bill Sullivan, Discover Magazine, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Of that amount, 15% is earmarked for behavioral health programs, 5% to address homelessness and 5% for youth programs.
    Dánica Coto, Quartz, 13 Feb. 2024
  • So the next step was to establish the exact behavioral parameters that would indicate that the goats had sensed that Mount Etna was about to erupt.
    WIRED, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Such trauma can lead to childhood and early adult behavioral problems.
    Glynis Kazanjian, Baltimore Sun, 22 Nov. 2024
  • And some dogs that had been described as friendly were re-categorized as available to rescue groups, but not the general public, because they were now deemed to have behavioral issues.
    Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2024

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