achieve
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You don’t want to go the latter route and, given that you are debt-free, I have every confidence that you will achieve that.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
SINGAPORE—A pioneering Chinese maker of humanoid robots soared 460% in its trading debut in Shanghai to achieve a market value of $51 billion, symbolizing the frenzy around an industry Beijing hopes to dominate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
“If revenues underperform or planned savings prove more difficult to achieve, pressure to identify additional cost reductions could increase,” the report said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
During extended chats with the UK media, one journalist asked, pointedly and with persistence, about realistic targets for the season ahead and questioned the club's willingness to spend enough to achieve them.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
You cannot achieve what you cannot believe, she said to herself, her sweaty cheek pressed against the bricks as she hugged the wall.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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Neil: Hopefully he helps the team progress and achieves Euro 2028 qualification.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
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
A griddle achieves this effortlessly, because the juices have nowhere else to go.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
A wish that continually approaches but never achieves fulfillment.
From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon
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Despite the rapid consumption by Ukraine and multiyear backlogs, interceptor manufacturers have only achieved a modest boost in production so far.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
While Jake achieved a grade 8 in maths, his older brother, Tobias, did not get the pass he wanted after sitting the exam for a fifth time.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Combining the bacterial therapy with chemotherapy, radiation therapy, or anti-PD-L1 immunotherapy led to better tumor control and longer survival than the individual treatments achieved on their own.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
What we saw onscreen, along with the catchy music she made, was, in her telling, the fruit of a creative yield achieved by pressing beyond her breaking point.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026
He’d once saved the French government itself: in the 1890s, he’d achieved national fame for calming widespread riots that had almost tipped the country into revolution.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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Managing the makeup of the roughly $31 trillion Treasury market has been among the tools it has deployed toward achieving that goal.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
In that note, Mr. Batiste also connects Mozart with Monk, citing how the two composers combined “melodic simplicity with staggering complexity” to “challenge convention while achieving universal appeal.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
“Honoring commitments that have already been made to the entertainment industry is an essential step in achieving that goal.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
But analysts stress that achieving significant savings from the welfare bill is easier said than done.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
The plan was to fling particles through a tunnel fifty-two miles long, achieving a truly staggering ninety-nine trillion volts of energy.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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