perform
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RBC has a last-published sector perform rating on the stock and a target price of 117.00 Australian dollars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Concertgoers flooded social media with their bizarre conspiracy theories after seeing the star perform at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, claiming that the singer secretly hired a lookalike to take his place during the performance.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
“This is my job and I love what I do. I’m thankful to my fellow lifeguards who perform rescues just like this every day.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
The researchers also reported that the new system could perform the same memory function as comparable technologies while consuming only one-tenth as much power.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
Yet the big Wall Street banks at the center of it just kept on growing, along with the sums of money that they doled out to twenty-six-year-olds to perform tasks of no obvious social utility.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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Jake Slaughter performs well in his first audition for the Chargers’ starting left-tackle role and the Mike McDaniel-guided running game puts on a show.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
He is said to be waiting to see how the new Honda performs before deciding whether to stay in F1 with Aston Martin next year.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Thatcher performs as if this was the part she was born for, and it very well may be.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
These questions led Kean to investigate how the brain actually performs logical reasoning.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
In a showcase of shorter performances that afternoon, another high school performs a production number from Pippin.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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While the hearing-implant maker’s FY 2026 revenue was broadly in line with consensus, Wong-Pan points out that the Australian company’s implants and services units both performed more strongly than analysts had expected.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Jason Derulo also performed in St Petersburg and Moscow last year, and told fans he would return on his 2026 world tour.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Both vessels performed multiple shuttle runs before being hit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Cecil and Linda performed together as Womack & Womack, best known for their 1988 hit “Teardrops,” and later as Zekkariyas & Zeriiya, respectively.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
After fourteen dogs had died, Drs. Macklin and McIlroy performed autopsies and discovered that many of the dogs had worms; the ship’s stores did not include the proper medication.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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A closely related worry is that a crash may be imminent, given that the stock market has been performing so well and for so long.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
“They will always choose to move the goal posts instead of performing better.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
Jungkook added that he would have to manage his injury well in order to keep performing.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
The two met at dancing class, where Fava was one of Iannotta's pupils, and started performing outdoors regularly in the summer since, as Iannotta puts it, they both "hate sitting around at home".
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
He spent the next hour demonstrating basic skills like palming a playing card or performing the French Drop, a maneuver in which a small object seemingly disappears when passing from one hand to the other.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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