performative
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Tyler Kolek said Taylor Swift at Knicks games was "a little performative"
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026
You may not like it, but this was like something from the peak era of performative millennial corporate synergy.
From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2026
Editors are doing their jobs again, protecting the public by allowing less performative intellectual laziness in their pages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
It looks like performative hydration, but it’s literally because if I don’t challenge myself to drink water, I just won’t drink water at all.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
I could see now that there was a performative piece to politics that I hadn’t yet fully mastered.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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