achieve
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"There had been two times that I spoke with the club, but it did not achieve anything," he recalled.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
"We are in this process to achieve a democratic and free Venezuela," the politician wrote on X on Tuesday.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
I’m willing to bet we can actually achieve such a utopian outcome, even if it takes another century.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
I see why it’s tempting to pay off: You are, essentially, trying to achieve a saving instead of an uncertain investment return.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
Tolkachev's espionage helped America achieve total air superiority by the late 1980s, earning him the nickname "the Billion Dollar Spy."
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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As the company achieves notable growth — sales more than doubled in the latest quarter — it’s also impressing Wall Street with its profit performance.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
His film is likable as heck but never quite achieves liftoff.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
They said the new deal "achieves this without any government funding or cost to taxpayers".
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
Although it cannot match Starship's enormous lifting capacity, it achieves much greater efficiency.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
Found only in Ireland, it achieves a height of up to six inches and is green in colour.
From "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling
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Zambia has a long record of transferring power through the ballot box, with every change of president since the return to multiparty politics in 1991 achieved through elections.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
“Despite near-term revenue headwinds, we achieved strong bottom-line growth, marking a clear inflection in our profit trajectory,” Xu said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Last season Emery declared he wanted to seal third place in the Premier League because he had not achieved it with Villa.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Grok 4.6 achieved a score in line with OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol model, but not quite as good as Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5 and Fable 5 models, according to Artificial Analysis.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
He never achieved greatness in the history books.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
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And the percentage of students achieving a merit or above grew from 65.3% to 68.9%.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Chatterjee believes the company is capable of achieving the Rule of 50 — meaning that its annual revenue growth and profit margin would add up to 50% or more — by fiscal 2030.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
“We hope that by having a grand jury return an indictment in this case it will bring us one step closer to a trial and achieving justice.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
"Regional issues should be resolved by regional actors, and with this action, we consider that we have taken a first step toward achieving that goal," he said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
Our involvement will be so great that we cannot—without national humiliation—stop short of achieving our complete objectives.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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