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That helps explain why some people with Alzheimer's can still make a cup of tea, recall song lyrics, or even perform music or a well-rehearsed theatrical script after other memories may have begun to fade.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
She watched robots perform flying kicks and stopped by the booths of Chinese companies that have used Nvidia’s technology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
The “Gnarly” and “Gabriela” team announced on Thursday that it will no longer perform at Olivia Rodrigo’s all-women Daisy Chain Fields music festival on Saturday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
The RBK news outlet reported this week that debates about whether he should perform were taking place within the presidential administration.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
Acts that have been training in separate countries on separate continents now perform in adjacent tents, each part melding seamlessly into a whole.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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The “orchestration layer” refers to the “coordination of different AI models, agent deployment and workflows,” which Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant performs well, Luria wrote in a previous note.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
The average UK surgeon performs about 10 to 20 of these operations a year, relying on scans done before surgery to familiarise themselves with the patient's anatomy.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
But for a single search, the A.I. performs “decently,” Mackey said.
From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026
What performs best online is not always aligned with the client’s preferences.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
Starry only performs Rabindra Sangeet when Baba asks, though.
From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins
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“The underlying business performed above our expectations,” Chief Financial Officer Robert Ball said on the conference call.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
Before touching down in Reading, Young performed at the Electric Picnic Festival in the Republic of Ireland on Saturday.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
Glowing magenta, she twirled above what looked to be a rising river, a physical representation of the swirling, engulfing thoughts that anxiety can provoke as she performed the song by the same name.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
Swiss DJ Tekibo, who performed at the rave, wrote on Instagram that he was physically unharmed but deeply affected by the tragedy, in which he said he had lost a friend.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
She rose on tiptoe and performed a single, wobbly pirouette.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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Yet he is now preparing to do something most actors would find daunting even with perfect recall: performing a much-loved Samuel Beckett play alone on a London stage.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
“But there’s no other L.A. County facility for performing arts that we found in our research that had an EBT program,” Fuentes added.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
The 29-year-old is performing on the main stage at Reading and Leeds Festival this year, but last year she made her debut at Glastonbury Festival through the BBC Introducing stage.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
The Boé chimpanzees performing the behavior are unhabituated; they are not used to humans, meaning that we cannot observe individual chimpanzees on foot because they will run away.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
Galileo, for example, despite performing exquisite experiments, never fully grasped the power of the experimental method, dismissing Gilbert’s work as not sufficiently philosophical.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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