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  • verb Present participle of preform.

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Examples

  • At the so-called "preforming" stage, the cut but still flat fabric begins to acquire a shape.

    Autoblog 2010

  • Get the full performance from your expensive rod by matching it with an equally expensive and high preforming, long lasting reel.

    Why Do High-End Fly Reels Cost So Much? 2009

  • Everthing from the housing market, manufacturering and GDP is preforming better now than it was prior.

    Stimulus money needs to be spent faster, Dems say 2009

  • Michael Jackson was such an incredible handsome young man at the Motown 25 preforming Billie Jean.

    Axelrod: Obama has written Jackson family 2009

  • Some more careful studies in 1970 (Ward and Kirk) studied women preforming three tasks and made the following recommendations: group A tasks performed above the worktop (peeling vegetables, beating and whipping in a bowl, slicing bread) 119 mm below elbow height group B tasks performed on the surface (spreading butter, chopping ingredients) 88 mm below elbow height group C tasks involved downward pressure (rolling pastry, ironing) 122 mm below elbow height

    design 2010

  • Get the full performance from your expensive rod by matching it with an equally expensive and high preforming, long lasting reel.

    Why Do High-End Fly Reels Cost So Much? 2009

  • Some more careful studies in 1970 (Ward and Kirk) studied women preforming three tasks and made the following recommendations: group A tasks performed above the worktop (peeling vegetables, beating and whipping in a bowl, slicing bread) 119 mm below elbow height group B tasks performed on the surface (spreading butter, chopping ingredients) 88 mm below elbow height group C tasks involved downward pressure (rolling pastry, ironing) 122 mm below elbow height

    is working in your kitchen a pain in the back? 2009

  • If more "christian" (read: sexless) women wanted to keep their man they should start preforming where it counts the most, and that is not on some wooden bench Sundays and Wednesdays.

    First on the Ticker: GOP support for Sanford impeachment grows 2009

  • Thank you sir for properly preforming the duties of your job.

    Think Progress » Kansas Attorney General Refuses To Sue Federal Government Over Health Care Reform 2010

  • Some more careful studies in 1970 (Ward and Kirk) studied women preforming three tasks and made the following recommendations: group A tasks performed above the worktop (peeling vegetables, beating and whipping in a bowl, slicing bread) 119 mm below elbow height group B tasks performed on the surface (spreading butter, chopping ingredients) 88 mm below elbow height group C tasks involved downward pressure (rolling pastry, ironing) 122 mm below elbow height

    tingilinde: 2009

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