achieve
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“They have to prove that those stronger curtailments are going to achieve the goals that they have, and that the state has,” Walker said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
"There's more than one way to achieve that, and I think members are realising that."
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
"The study shows that you can achieve that kind of highly useful precision and accuracy into the historical realm."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
He focused instead on securing U.S. concessions on Taiwan, aiming to achieve suzerainty over this de facto independent island and its high-tech industries, but reportedly came away with little or nothing on that score.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
“I promise we’ll remember the little people when we achieve egg drop stardom.”
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
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If it achieves that, the spacecraft will then attempt to deploy satellites designed to expand the company's already massive satellite internet constellation.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
There’s a difference between a film that becomes a cult classic because it’s genuinely underrated, and one that achieves that status through the unholy, rose-colored lens of social media obsession.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
That’s unusual even by AI-era standards, with analysts noting that a business built around physical hardware rarely achieves margins that high.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
His film is likable as heck but never quite achieves liftoff.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
After nine years—in April 1957—Joey finally achieves twelve consecutive negative swabs for Hansen’s disease, and she is allowed to leave Carville.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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With only minimal fine-tuning, the optical processor achieved 94.80% accuracy and 97.61% sensitivity on previously unseen VEO-3 videos during experiments.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
It achieved an average detection accuracy of 97.79%, along with a sensitivity of 99.86% and a specificity of 95.72%.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
“Europe has achieved more than the public debate often acknowledges, but less than its ambitions require,” she wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Avanti West Coast's managing director said he was "proud of what we've achieved over the last six years".
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
That required level-five magic, advanced incantations and spells that Spares rarely achieved but Forever Witchlings never ever could.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
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“Justice requires more than achieving certain results,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
"It reminded me that we're capable of doing unbelievable things when how badly we want something matches and surpasses the difficulty of achieving it," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
In a paper published in October 2025 called "Artificial Writing and Automated Detection", researchers at the University of Chicago found Pangram "achieving near-zero error rates" on medium-to-long extracts.
From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026
Canadian provinces had looked poised to put American alcoholic products back on their store shelves last month as Trump and Canadian officials appeared close to achieving a new trade deal.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
If this occurred the Gethenians might have an excellent chance of achieving the condition of war.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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