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[per-fawrm] / pərˈfɔrm /




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Rob Reiner’s career began on television, and after leaving “All in the Family” he continued to perform, transforming tonally into a sort of gentle Jewish Buddha onscreen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

Building on that foundation, the teams created a so-called harness to direct those models and also constructed dozens of agents to perform tasks on behalf of users.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

That’s because more conservative portfolios, such as the traditional 60% stock/40% bond portfolio, often perform almost as well as an all-stock portfolio over 30-year holding periods.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

The 87-year-old Lord of the Rings star, who was born in Burnley, will perform in An Ark when it comes to Manchester's Factory International Aviva Studios.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

A puffin who had descended from a long line of military heroes could not be expected to perform manual labor.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el

“A conventional data center ordinarily performs an entirely different function,” she wrote, arguing data centers aren’t in play.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

The new model, which Meta says performs better than OpenAI’s Astra and Anthropic’s Fable on several tests, will soon power Muse for subscribers of both the $20 a month and $100 a month tiers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Friendly outlets are the audience he performs for, while hostile ones are the villains he performs against.

From Salon ● Oct. 6, 2026

Shahim Khan, 42, still performs magic on Delhi's streets, sometimes with his 12-year-old daughter, Alia.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

In a showcase of shorter performances that afternoon, another high school performs a production number from Pippin.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

But those monologues are still reviewed and vetted like other material on the show and performed as part of a dress rehearsal before the live show.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

Dream rock band Fathom travelled roughly 700km across Australia to play nine shows, setting a new Guinness World Record for most concerts performed in 12 hours across multiple cities.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

Over four years, participants who performed weekly resistance exercises improved their upper and lower body strength.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026

Since then, he’s also performed on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

Maybe you have to see it performed live to appreciate it.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

"Hurzeler has come out the other side and the way he has got this group of players performing is exceptional."

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

At its event in Texas, the company showed a Roadster performing a few aerial feats, including leaping over several other Tesla vehicles.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

More than 6 in 10 voters said he was performing better than they expected.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

They also said programming spanning fashion, film, food, music, performing and visual art, will be announced in 2027.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

Confidence in experimental knowledge thus requires the natural/artificial distinction to be undermined and replaced by the conviction that by performing procedures that correspond to natural processes I can have true knowledge of those processes.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton


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