- present participle of achieve.
achieving
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In the Bay Area, he rallied a group of like-minded young men to co-found Stop AI, a group devoted to “protecting human life by achieving a permanent global ban on artificial superintelligence.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 12, 2026
Dodgers third base coach Dino Ebel is proud of what his sons have accomplished as they move closer to achieving their major league dreams.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 10, 2026
They were painstakingly close to achieving one of the tournament's great upsets against Argentina, leading 2-0 with just minutes left to play before the defending champions staged an astonishing 3-2 comeback win.
From Barron's • Jul. 10, 2026
They don’t see a repeat of the extreme inflation volatility seen at the time but do say the Federal Reserve will have trouble achieving its 2% inflation target.
From MarketWatch • Jul. 9, 2026
The GUTs also predict that at this energy the different spin-'/2 matter particles, like quarks and electrons, would also all be essentially the same, thus achieving another unification.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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