The linguist explained that 'I now pronounce you husband and wife' is a classic example of a performative.

We selected a performant caching layer to reduce latency during peak loads.

At the ancient shrine, the performant led the midnight ceremony with solemn chants.

The performers practiced for hours before the festival.

Her evening performances received rave reviews from both critics and audiences.

The orchestra performed Beethoven's Ninth Symphony to a sold-out audience last night.

She performs a delicate repair on the antique clock every Sunday.

She recited her apology performatively, focusing more on appearance than on genuine remorse.

The linguist catalogued several performatives in the corpus to study how they function pragmatically.

Researchers compared the performabilities of several algorithms to determine which was most suitable for real-time applications.