achieve
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However, Bill fails to quantify what he expects the team to achieve?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
The AFC added Infantino's plan could not "realistically achieve the necessary broad consensus and unity required to move forward".
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
The experience suggests that to achieve enlightenment, one must embrace these limitations, come to peace with contradictions, and maintain faith in a larger order that we cannot fathom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 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
Could finding him be a way for me to really achieve something?
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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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
In a study published in Neuron, Kerstjens, Zador, and collaborators from Harvard University and ETH Zürich propose a new theory describing how the developing brain achieves this remarkable level of organization.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 25, 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
A wish that continually approaches but never achieves fulfillment.
From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon
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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
Microsoft hasn’t publicly disclosed its cybersecurity revenue since 2023, when the business achieved $20 billion in annual revenue.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 2, 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
He’d once saved the French government itself: in the 1890s, he’d achieved national fame for calming widespread riots that had almost tipped the country into revolution.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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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
When asked whether the entire team was full speed and ready to go, he made the analogy of an airplane gathering speed down a runway before achieving flight.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 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
Graham quipped in his final days that he couldn’t die now because he was close to achieving both goals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
A lich was an undead creature, usually an incredibly powerful wizard or king who had employed dark magic to bind his intellect to his own reanimated corpse, thus achieving a perverted form of immortality.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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