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achieve

[uh-cheev] / Ι™ΛˆtΚƒiv /


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The AI agents decided that ignoring the limits on what should be done to achieve their goal was the best course of action.

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

In the Scientific Revolution, Bacon and Descartes were amongst those with plans for thoroughgoing intellectual change, but their plans were castles in the air, and neither of them imagined what Newton would achieve.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

The central bank’s mandate is to set the target for the overnight rate at a level that achieves and maintains 2% inflation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 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

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

FKT is short for the “fastest known time” that a person or small group achieves on a particular course, usually somewhere it would be difficult or impossible to host an actual race.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026

He achieves his own authority, and that is unshakable.

From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin

Aylo said that updates to the Act requiring age verification had "not achieved its goal of protecting minors" and had "diverted traffic to darker, unregulated corners of the internet".

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

The process took 30 minutes and achieved nothing.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 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

More than anything, I don’t want to mess up the balance I achieved at the Ranch.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

After achieving success, some firms shed their solo status by adding employees or getting acquired by a larger firm.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 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

But recessions rid economies of the inefficiencies and excesses that stop them from achieving robust growth postrecovery.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

The same, to an extent, is true of Erik ten Hag and Ruben Amorim, both of whom came to United after achieving success in a domestic league where their side dominated the opposition.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

In each generation, new tactics have been used for achieving the same goals—goals shared by the Founding Fathers.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander




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