achieve
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"I want to use it as fuel to get back into England squads and then back in an England shirt. That's an aim of mine and I hope to achieve it," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
Although it has pledged to achieve carbon neutrality before 2060, it is targeting only a modest 7-10 percent reduction in economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions by 2035, compared to peak levels.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
"Our work indicates that we could use slightly slower initial shocks and still achieve full melting of the diamond in our NIF implosions," said Millot.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
“Weil is on track to achieve both record revenue and profitability in 2026 that will result in a very significant increase in profits per equity partner,” the firm said in a statement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
French premier Clemenceau had failed to achieve all the demands of the French people, who complained that the peace terms were too lenient and that Germany should have been partitioned into smaller, weaker states.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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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
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
Whether SK Hynix achieves anything close to that is difficult to say, but it seems nearly certain that another cyclical downturn will come eventually.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 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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He achieved that feat, but only just as Spurs survived with victory against Everton on the final day.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
He suffers from the two facts that he achieved unique fame for the surgery named for him and he didn’t strike out hitters, he finessed them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
Shein first floated plans to go public in 2022, when it achieved its peak valuation of $100 billion in a private funding round.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
He achieved a Ph.D. from Liverpool John Moores University, and soon began to climb the academic ranks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Still, Anthony admired all that Willard had achieved, and she eagerly accepted help from the group.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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Managing the makeup of the roughly $31 trillion Treasury market has been among the tools it has deployed toward achieving that goal.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
In that note, Mr. Batiste also connects Mozart with Monk, citing how the two composers combined “melodic simplicity with staggering complexity” to “challenge convention while achieving universal appeal.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● 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
Planning appeal rules would also be changed to stop "occupiers from achieving through the appeal system what is denied through the application route".
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Barred by law from invoking race explicitly, those committed to racial hierarchy were forced to search for new means of achieving their goals according to the new rules of American democracy.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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