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
Its latest model has been tested at carmaker Audi as part of a project aimed at enabling robots to perform production-line tasks.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 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
In particular, future studies will need to test how well these fungi perform with actual lunar and Martian regolith rather than simulations or other substitute materials.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
“Mina was freaked out about having to perform in front of the whole school,” said Joe.
From "Hopping Mad (The Hardy Boys: Secret Files, #4)" by Franklin W. Dixon
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For Livia, who performs it for a university recital, it is her greatest triumph and a symbol of her hubris, because mastering it seems to presage a fall.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Muse is meant as something different: a robot that performs tasks for you across the internet.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
Researchers in Tristan Wagner's laboratory at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen wanted to understand how this organism performs nitrogen fixation under such extreme conditions.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
These acrylic-based cabin windows are usually made out of two layers or plies, and Saint-Gobain also performs tests to confirm whether the window will survive even if one of those plies gets damaged.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 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
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Sapir says his research team simulated how an investor in several leveraged ETFs would have performed relative to an unleveraged index over all rolling 10-year periods and found these results:
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
He occasionally performed with the group until retiring in 2021.
From Los Angeles Times ● 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
British singers Raye and Sienna Spiro, who won best new artist, also performed on the night, where there were tributes to the late Parton and George Michael.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
“As I already explained,” he says, “when we began our work, there were only a few Deltas still living. Before the Deltas, the Gammas performed those duties for the Collective.”
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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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
Javon Walton has spent much of his life performing under bright lights.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 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
Now that he was dead, they marked his passage to another plane in impersonal and almost tribal fashion—chanting, weaving mandalas, beating on drums, performing their own inscrutable and mysterious rites.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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