performing

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The rapper played the first of two shows Wednesday night, performing new songs and oldies on a giant dome on the stadium’s floor.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

Other data will be watched for signs of how the U.S. economy is performing during the Middle East war.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

You could see autonomous robots performing complicated surgeries by themselves, every car on the road getting driven autonomously, and personal artificial intelligence agents organizing every step of a person’s day-to-day activities.

From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026

"All I am doing is fixing, cleaning, running, and 'sprucing up' a terribly maintained, for many years, Building," Trump wrote about the performing arts venue in Washington DC.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

Now that he was dead, they marked his passage to another plane in impersonal and almost tribal fashion—chanting, weaving mandalas, beating on drums, performing their own inscrutable and mysterious rites.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt