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performed

  • past participle
    of perform.
    perform
    verb (used with object)
    to carry out; execute; do.
  • past tense form
    of perform.
    perform
    verb (used with object)
    to carry out; execute; do.

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Tech billionaire Jared Isaacman has performed the first private spacewalk hundreds of miles above Earth.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

For years, he performed a one-man version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol on Broadway - playing all 40 characters.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

Here’s how all three have performed this year through Wednesday, with dividends reinvested:

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026

Poehler’s biggest moment may have come in 2008, near the end of her seven-year run, when she performed a rap as Sarah Palin in front of the vice presidential nominee.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Their mechanics took a record player with them as they moved from base to base; one of them, Sonya Tishurova, organized a group who performed national dances from different states in the USSR.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein