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performing

ADJECTIVE
fulfilling a function
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ADJECTIVE
taking part in a presentation
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Seah said it is rare to see ballet dancers performing at 77.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

Shareholders in U.S. and Australian publicly traded companies can challenge poorly performing management through shareholder meetings and via activist investors who increase shareholder value by ousting directors and executives.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

“As pressure builds, crews will again perform targeted leak checks to confirm every section of pipe, both new and existing, is stable and performing as expected,” the utility department said.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 20, 2026

The band have since gone on an "indefinite hiatus" from performing live shows.

From BBC Jul. 19, 2026

“And, unlike Charlotte, I wasn’t using a supercomputer capable of performing over five hundred trillion floating-point operations per second.”

From "City Spies" by James Ponti




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