- 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
A seven-year-old from Sydney, Australia has gone viral after a video of him performing an original song was posted on his dad's social media.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
The data will give a picture of how the country’s economy was performing ahead of renewed hostilities in the Middle East and a jump higher in oil prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 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
He couldn’t wait to see Subject One performing under pressure.
From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein
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