- present participle of perform.
performing
Example Sentences
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The top performing sectors during these periods were healthcare and consumer-discretionary stocks like restaurants, delivering relatively paltry returns of 0.29% and 0.31% a month, respectively.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
Sea hags have nothing on the fear of performing Nile’s drunken dancing in “The Beast in Me.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026
"We are talking about the greatest player of all time. He is here because he is still performing at a very high level, not because of what he achieved in the past," Martinez explained.
From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026
Clean-energy stocks are performing well, but they can still destroy capital if investors buy the wrong company at the wrong price.
From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026
I knew that performing high-degree-of-difficulty routines was the key to taking my gymnastics to the next level, especially under the revised international Code of Points introduced in 2006.
From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles
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