perform
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Bernstein cuts its recommendation on Eurofins stock to market perform from outperform, and trims its target price to 73.90 euros from 77.20 euros.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Even though only small quantities of blood were available, researchers were able to perform additional analyses and extract more scientific information from the existing studies.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
The spacecraft will be launched Monday on a suborbital trajectory and, if all systems are go, then perform a second burn to reach orbit.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
As a result, a surprising number of individual stocks are struggling, even as the biggest names with the most influence at the index level have continued to perform.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 27, 2026
As always, the best way to perform such notes depends on the instrument and the style of the music.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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Muse is meant as something different: a robot that performs tasks for you across the internet.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
Styles' music played in the shops and staff wore ties to "dress up" like the artist, who often performs wearing the accessory.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
The single came from an LP called “Mellow Gold,” but Beck—he generally performs under his first name only—released three LPs that year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
This method allows researchers to compare multiple therapies across many different trials and estimate how each one performs relative to the others.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
The man on the stage, a slick-haired, bearded fellow whose white gloves move like birds against the black of his suit, performs simple tricks and sleight-of-hand misdirections.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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Luis Binks defended well on his debut and Stephen Welsh came on after the red card and performed admirably again.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
He occasionally performed with the group until retiring in 2021.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
The model performed poorly on tests measuring alignment, or how well the model adheres to what humans would like it to do.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Smiling with her hair loose, the singer performed her 2002 hit before being joined by a star-studded cast of L'Oreal ambassadors including Viola Davis, Simone Ashley, Aja Naomi King and Eva Longoria.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
Their mechanics took a record player with them as they moved from base to base; one of them, Sonya Tishurova, organized a group who performed national dances from different states in the USSR.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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The global star appeared in a stylish black-and-white video for the retail chain's part-time worker recruitment campaign and can be seen performing tasks typically set out for staff working at the franchise.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
As Sergio García-Ríos, Univision’s director of polling, highlighted to me from his recent survey of Texas races, Hinojosa—despite being a Latina—wasn’t performing as well with Hispanic voters as the Democratic Senate candidate, James Talarico.
From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2026
Xi’s sartorial choice captured something about the relationship the two men had spent the day performing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Members of Mariachi Tierra Mia were performing at a Christmas party when an attendee requested that the group perform the 1984 Smiths track “Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
He couldn’t wait to see Subject One performing under pressure.
From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein
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