achieve
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In a letter read to the court after the verdict was announced, Gia told the jurors she deeply appreciated the justice they helped her family achieve.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
He recommends deciding exactly what you want to achieve, measuring the space and buying everything you need before you start.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Polls show most Americans still want to achieve homeownership, but the majority of people who want to buy a home “are not in a strong financial position to do that,” Salviati said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
Through a complicated set of moves, we managed to achieve the celebrated “perfect soft landing.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
For Farmer, Cuba represented hope, proof that a poor country could achieve good public health.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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The test of the Warsh Fed, as with all chairmen, is whether the central bank achieves and maintains price stability.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 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
FKT is short for the “fastest known time” that a person or small group achieves on a particular course, usually somewhere it would be difficult or impossible to host an actual race.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
They said the new deal "achieves this without any government funding or cost to taxpayers".
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
He ultimately achieves a personal and moral victory by finding the bad guy and throwing him in jail.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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Every change of president since the return to multiparty politics in 1991 has been achieved through elections.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
As the Journal explains, total addressable market, or TAM, is used to estimate the amount of annual revenue a company could theoretically capture if it achieved 100% market share.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
“While some progress has been achieved, including the promotion of meaningful observation within the Elections Office, Mr. Curtis has failed significantly in other core responsibilities, undermining the very principles he was appointed to uphold.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Plaid ministers want to phase the rest of the scheme over time - but until that is spelled out the party will continue to face scrutiny over how it's achieved.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
It was nine p.m. on July 20, 1971, and Bobby Fischer had achieved what no one else had ever accomplished in chess: winning two grandmaster matches without drawing or losing a single game.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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Her gender and ethnicity once arguably worked against Kusama achieving clout in the art world in the early years of her work, but they eventually turned into major selling points.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
These officials said that price pressures remained broad-based and judged that the Fed should adopt a more restrictive policy stance to meet its commitment to achieving its 2% inflation target.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
Judge Huw Rees said it was "inexplicable" why someone would want to drive at such "extreme" speeds, let alone why a car would be capable of achieving those speeds.
From BBC ● 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
Seven would have a much better chance of achieving her biggest dream, becoming a witching-world-famous journalist, if she was in one of the powerful covens, like her mom.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
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