achieve
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The European Union's top commerce official said that it was crucial to achieve "tangible outcomes" in talks set to wrap up in China on Friday.
From Barron's β Oct. 9, 2026
This is what management are trying to achieve at another site that opened in the 1970s: Weston Favell, on the eastern edge of Northampton.
From BBC β Oct. 6, 2026
On advanced reasoning benchmarks, Beam can achieve comparable scores to GLM-5.2 with three to four times less processing computing, according to Reflection.
From MarketWatch β Oct. 5, 2026
Brian Bradley, chair of the Cheadle Towns Fund Board, said it was "a fantastic milestone for Cheadle and a moment that many people have worked hard to achieve over a number of years".
From BBC β Oct. 4, 2026
Each may achieve his goals with these different means.
From "The Prince" by NiccolΓ² Machiavelli
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“If Robinson achieves its savings target, it will be significantly more challenging for companies like TQL, J.B. Hunt and other mid-sized brokers to compete on price.”
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 6, 2026
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 β 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 β Sep. 14, 2026
Neil: Hopefully he helps the team progress and achieves Euro 2028 qualification.
From BBC β Aug. 17, 2026
He achieves his own authority, and that is unshakable.
From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin
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Occasionally executioners even achieved a kind of celebrity status.
From Slate β Oct. 9, 2026
"A lot has been achieved in a short period of time", said Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh, a law professor at the University of Amsterdam who served as a legal expert in proceedings before all three courts.
From Barron's β Oct. 9, 2026
Novartis achieved positive results with its ianalumab drug candidate last year, but prior to that there had been no meaningful innovation in the disease for more than two decades, they added.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 8, 2026
“Our epic deployment ends today and what this team achieved is amazing,” Keeler said Thursday.
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 8, 2026
The only thing they’d achieved, coming to the alternate world, was to doom more people.
From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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"We are working on it. For us, South Korea is an important country. And I really hope for momentum, continuation, and concrete results that we are truly achieving with them," he said.
From BBC β Oct. 2, 2026
“Justice requires more than achieving certain results,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 1, 2026
“Project Meridian” will be focused on achieving technological superiority for “developing and fielding weapons and systems” for battlefields in the decades ahead.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 30, 2026
From an engineering point of view, "just achieving flight and getting data" would be considered a success, Curlee said.
From Barron's β Sep. 28, 2026
To have risked so much in our efforts to mold nature to our satisfaction and yet to have failed in achieving our goal would indeed be the final irony.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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