perform
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He’s so obsessed with being the best that three broken arms suffered from falls, along with a compression back fracture, hardly deters him to think twice about flying through the air trying to perform tricks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2026
Everton's age-old problem is how Thierno Barry is going to perform because they rely so heavily on how well he is playing up front.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
Young Patrick's love of drama developed at school when one of his teachers introduced him to Shakespeare and encouraged him to perform.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
Fifty-three of those restaurants included a Chipotlane, a digital-order drive-through pickup lane that the company said continues to perform well.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
A singer-songwriter with a guitar was now at the microphone, and she started to perform a song.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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Many are waiting to see how Anthropic performs before taking any big steps.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
This has damaged cutting-edge facilities like Johns Hopkins, which performs the costliest procedures, such as kidney transplants.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Laveaux performs throughout the night, concluding with a dance party called the Final Voyage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026
Although he performs seated on a throne, his eyes are full of life and his voice is powerful.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
He found out that the returning bee performs a wonderful “waggle dance” that tells the others exactly where to go.
From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall
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Another performed CPR on Lloyd while the third called an ambulance.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
Senegalese wrestling, known as "laamb", is performed bare-chested and in a loincloth, with the participant often adorned in "gris-gris", charms and amulets believed to offer protection.
From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026
The astronauts also performed several preliminary tasks to prepare for another spacewalk scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 5.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026
Antonoff has been on the road for the Bleachers Forever tour since June and recently performed at the Troubadour in West Hollywood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
Kerr gave an encore performance of “Spagoni the Toreador” for oldtimes’ sake, but the greatest applause of the evening went to James, who composed a song he performed for the occasion:
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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After De La Cruz gibed that the race “isn’t about who you want performing at your niece’s quinceañera,” the Democrat said he was open to playing anyone’s quinceañera in the district.
From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2026
For all her vulnerability on “Lost Weekend,” she remains a pro who’s been performing since she was a teenager; my suspicion is that she probably would’ve found a way to get there.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026
While the firm’s credit arm is facing pressure, about one third of its assets under management are held in collateralized loan obligation funds, which people familiar with the matter said are still performing well.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
On Thursday, the Environment Agency gave the firm one star out of four - its lowest possible rating - meaning Yorkshire Water was classed as a "poorly performing company".
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
Mr. Wopsle shut his eyes, and opened them again; performing both ceremonies very slowly.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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