Example Sentences

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Then again, the broad stock market has been performing well, for the most part, over the past decade, and this year’s action has run counter to that warning.

From MarketWatch • May 14, 2026

Hendricks said that the fund has been performing and paying dividends, but that the value of his investment is now around $72,600.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026

Since then, he has been performing and recording under his solo name.

From BBC • Feb. 17, 2026

The quartet has been performing together for about two years, the group’s frontman, Enrique Ibarra, explained.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2025

Broca is still unable to study a living brain, but he has been performing autopsies on the brains of stroke victims.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman