achieve
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Alonso took his time coaching in youth football, but it soon felt - much like in his playing career - as though he could only achieve success.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
However, Bill fails to quantify what he expects the team to achieve?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
"We were able to achieve significant strength and plasticity in CoAl, which can't be realized via traditional casting."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026
Since taking over in May, Warsh has said he is committed to the Fed's two-percent inflation target, but has shared no details on how he believes the central bank should achieve it.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
The urge to penetrate unknown realms, to achieve something original, may be felt by every one of us now and than.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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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
It typically achieves these goals through interest-rate decisions -- cutting borrowing costs to spur economic activity or raising them to cool prices.
From Barron's ● Jun. 14, 2026
Dee’s main objective for the day seems to be making Juan laugh, which she achieves in less than two hours.
From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King
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Finucane has achieved her quartet of successes in four successive days in the Chris Hoy Velodrome in Glasgow.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
"This research is achieved by team effort. There is an old Japanese saying: 'One arrow is easy to break, but three arrows bundled together are not,'" Mizuno said.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 2, 2026
Halstead praised the “almost universal good order and decorum” with which the election was held and called the result “a noiseless revolution,” achieved without a drop of blood.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Experts say Taco Bell’s secret sauce isn’t just one flavor — the brand has achieved cultural relevance, menu innovation and compelling value that keep customers coming back.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
Copernicus achieved the same effect by different means.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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"Without this infrastructure, achieving the coherent, ultrafast modulation needed for the PTC regime would have been impossible."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026
The dissenters said the first step toward achieving that objective would be to start raising interest rates incrementally.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
"We are making important progress which will safeguard the future of our game, concentrate resources and give our teams the best chance of achieving success at all levels."
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
He hasn’t come close to achieving either goal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
Perhaps only the basic idea is known: someone has succeeded, somehow, in achieving a certain final result.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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