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perform

[per-fawrm] / pərˈfɔrm /




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RBC starts coverage of GSK with a sector perform recommendation and a target price of 19.75 pounds.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

In biology, conserved pathways are mechanisms that have remained similar through evolution because they perform essential jobs.

From Science Daily Sep. 9, 2026

Women can have all of those qualities, too, and political science research suggests female candidates often perform as well as or better than male ones.

From Slate Sep. 9, 2026

She said: "Too often these cases are dependent upon bereaved families campaigning at a time when they are least prepared to do so, and it is an outstanding public service that they perform."

From BBC Sep. 8, 2026

When they grew tired of that, they assumed the roles of Dr. Westminster and his equally qualified assistant, Dr. Eastminster, and attempted to perform medical examinations on Nutsawoo.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

The metallic Ni observed after a reaction may simply form when nickel oxide is reduced by syngas at high temperatures, rather than representing the species that actually performs the catalysis.

From Science Daily Sep. 9, 2026

Each Live Lounge guest traditionally performs an acoustic version of one of their own songs, plus a cover of a track by a different artist.

From BBC Sep. 7, 2026

Johnson’s Marina performs with lovely gravitas, as do Javier’s Thaisa and Thompson’s Pericles.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 5, 2026

That’s assuming the stock market performs as it did on average following past occasions when the Federal Reserve began raising rates following a rate-cut cycle — so-called first hikes.

From MarketWatch Sep. 3, 2026

On the page, punctuation performs its grammatical function, but in the mind of the reader it does more than that.

From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author

The low-loading catalyst also performed far better than another 0.8 wt% Ni/Al2O3 material prepared using the same impregnation method.

From Science Daily Sep. 9, 2026

The medical team could find no previous examples of the same procedure being performed on a roloway monkey.

From Science Daily Sep. 8, 2026

After I performed it for my dad and saw the joy on his face and my mom’s pride, acting became a passion.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 2026

Though California has not performed an execution since 2006, prosecutors in some areas of the state continue to seek and win death sentences.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 8, 2026

For example, characters and themes are given a short musical pattern, and every time that character or theme appears, the musical pattern is performed.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

Surveys say Americans are in a funk, even though their sour mood doesn’t match up with what major indicators say about how the U.S. economy is performing, The Wall Street Journal’s Justin Lahart writes.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

The tests were taken by a sample of teenagers in 91 countries and economies in 2025, and are seen as an important yardstick of how education systems are performing.

From BBC Sep. 8, 2026

The “10 Things I Hate About You” star was raised in Manhattan and began performing at a young age before enrolling at Columbia University—even as her Hollywood career was taking off.

From MarketWatch Sep. 8, 2026

“This suggests a new phenomenon, with the biggest factor in the overall drop in scores being advantaged students who are performing below what one would expect given their background,” said Schleicher.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 2026

It is also possible that most of the hazmats are performing the action they call sleep.

From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga




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