perform
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But there’s also something revealing about recruiting people to perform a form of labor that society has never been especially consistent about expecting everyone to learn.
From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026
If that is the case, the hidden structural differences could help explain why certain superconducting materials perform better than others.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026
Oscar-winning actress Dame Judi Dench says her eye condition has left her unable to perform on stage or read, more than a decade after she was diagnosed.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
Thales Alenia Space—a joint venture between Thales and Italy’s Leonardo—last month signed an agreement with French satellite operator Eutelsat to supply payloads—equipment that satellites carry to perform their mission—for 330 low Earth orbit satellites.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
It was hard to see Mina touching a frog, let alone throwing it at someone’s face—no matter how scared she was to perform.
From "Hopping Mad (The Hardy Boys: Secret Files, #4)" by Franklin W. Dixon
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He also gives advice on appearing masculine and performs stunts to shock followers.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
It needs an alternative that performs enough of its work reliably and economically to make shifting orders a realistic option.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
The AI tool won’t provide any of its own scoring or assessments on how a candidate performs, McKinsey partners say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
“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
A Racal suit performs the same job as a heavy-duty Chemturion space suit.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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Those are different jobs, performed on different platforms, and neither figure tells us which workers are more likely to mistake parsley for cilantro.
From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026
Having performed internationally, she had seen how other cities had developed a wider range of events celebrating these sounds.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
The mice performed better in exercise and stress tests and showed improvements in heart function.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
It performed better at math and coding because it took time to work through problems, writing out its reasoning process on an internal scratchpad called a “chain-of-thought.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Students respond one measure later while continually absorbing the pattern currently being performed.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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Sociologist Allison Daminger has studied this invisible dimension of household work: the planning, anticipation, decision-making and monitoring that continue even when someone else is performing the physical task.
From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026
A Blue Owl spokesman said software remains one of its strongest performing segments and said liquidity has never been an issue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
I’m a big Rams fan, so I was at the Super Bowl there, and then I saw Paul McCartney there, so just performing there was dope, man.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
The singer, whose real name is Uzoechi Emenike, said he had been "really looking forward" to performing his new album but had "no interest in doing this tour if I can't do it right".
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
Right before he’d snuck out of the apartment, he’d spotted his father performing his evening prayers.
From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai
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