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achieve

[uh-cheev] / əˈtʃiv /


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While Nicola, a former Police Scotland sergeant, accepts the final judgement, she says only she could truly decide when she could achieve a sense of closure.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

“Royal Caribbean is seeing better yield trends for higher-end customers, and likely wants more access to this customer, but this is hard to achieve in cruise given supply constraints,” the analysts said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

The hagwon becomes a testing ground for this challenge, a place where tutors try to achieve excellence humanely and collaboratively.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

This is all thanks to The Cookout, an alliance of Black players who secretly agreed to stick together near the top of the season expressly to achieve that purpose.

From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2021

Just as her sister Inge and brother Hans did, she believed that Hitler would help Germany achieve greatness, fortune, and prosperity.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

But the murkiness doesn’t last long in a production that achieves an admirable balance between objectivity and emotion, abstraction and representation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 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 ● Sep. 14, 2026

Neil: Hopefully he helps the team progress and achieves Euro 2028 qualification.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

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

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

The process took 30 minutes and achieved nothing.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

"Gen Z protests didn't go in vain. We achieved something. At least now we see more debates with young people on state TV," she says.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Enicepatide also achieved mean weight loss of 15.5% after 48 weeks at the highest dose, without a plateau in weight reductions, the company added.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

The result represents one of the highest energy confirmations of quantum entanglement ever achieved.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

The Populists took direct aim at the conservatives, who were known as comprising a party of privilege, and they achieved a stunning series of political victories throughout the region.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

A leitmotif of the book is the author’s slow discovery that the internet connection she needs to pull off the single-handed race impedes her ability to enjoy fully what she’s seeing and achieving.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

The combination of a good proportion of diabetics getting back to normalized glucose levels and achieving sustained weight loss with enicepatide give the drug a competitive profile, Schneider says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

When Tanisha Saunders graduated from college eight years ago, she felt optimistic that she was on her way to achieving an American dream that included homeownership.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026

"There's a lot of families here today that have been thanking me for achieving this memorial so I'm incredibly grateful."

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

By kicking me into the dark they'd made me see the possibility of achieving something greater and more important than I'd ever dreamed.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison




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