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Who were the first climbers confirmed to have achieved the goal of reaching the summit of Mt. Everest?

achieve

[uh-cheev] / əˈtʃiv /


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Nearly all RAV4s achieve more than 40 combined miles a gallon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

SpaceX’s ability to achieve its computing-power goals — or even get close to them — matters to investors for a number of reasons.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

At least 50% of Tesla's shareholders would need to approve the merger, which Musk described as "quite a high hurdle to achieve".

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

To achieve their new level of precision, the team departed from the conventional method of estimating primordial helium.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

The Declaration was still regarded as a product of the whole Continental Congress, not the work of one man, and had yet to achieve the symbolic significance it would in the nineteenth century.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

Crucially, the microscope achieves this resolution without sacrificing imaging speed or requiring intense laser illumination.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 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 ● Sep. 28, 2026

To compound matters, the masculine ego trap also tells a man that he’s not worthy of what he wants until he achieves some nebulous milestone that, again, sets him apart from other men.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

That’s a six pound average for a fish that rarely achieves that sort of size.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

Rather than use logos—detailed arguments and eye-glazing statistics about the ways in which the charity achieves the greatest good, distributes its funds, and so on—the ad shoots straight for the heart.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

Cornered, the liar finally admits, accidentally or intentionally, the truth; justice prevails and catharsis is achieved.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

“He achieved his goal of presenting himself as a centrist, as a moderate,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

In the decades since, he achieved unusually intimate ends with a big band and led small ensembles to sound bigger than their instrumentation might suggest.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

It is the first time researchers have achieved this fundamental limit with molecules attached to a surface.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

“That’s what’s important. I’ve always admired quiet people who have achieved a lot much more than I have loud, obnoxious people who brag about their achievements.”

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

"Obviously, this is the team that eliminated us from achieving our goal," Gilgeous-Alexander said.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

But how close did Germany actually come to achieving that goal?

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

This one did something else, reaching extreme heights but never achieving the sustained success of more entrenched conspiracy theories.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

And, even before the pandemic, about half of the state’s students were not achieving the state’s learning goals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

Madison’s more judicious arguments, published as the Virginia Resolutions, were circulating in the national press and achieving the same goal—condemning the Sedition Act but without recourse to nullification.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis


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