performative
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Editors are doing their jobs again, protecting the public by allowing less performative intellectual laziness in their pages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Mandating AI use at work can become purely performative, rather than having any real positive impact, warns Kamila Miller, applied AI researcher and lecturer at Henley Business School.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
I am thoroughly unimpressed by this sudden, performative show of fire safety.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
“But I don’t. That’s me being performative, like, trying desperately to buy the right clothes.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
I could see now that there was a performative piece to politics that I hadn’t yet fully mastered.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
