- present participle of perform.
performing
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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The chart shows strongly performing security and infrastructure, which provides “critical data backbones, compute pipelines and complex protection systems that generative models actively expand rather than displace.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
Fifty years later, those stakeholders have “absolutely zero consensus on whether theater should exist as a nonprofit performing arts field or whether we should exist at all,” Eustis said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
Established parts of the enterprise are offsetting most of the trouble, with YouTube, search and advertising all performing in line with expectations, or better than expected, the analysts write.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
The woman described how Robertson hounded her with an "obsessive" amount of calls and voicemails, and sent gifts to theatres where she was performing.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
This idea was taken up by Denis Papin, a medical doctor who had started his scientific career as an assistant to Huygens, performing air-pump experiments.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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