attain

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At High Desert Test Sites, Zittel’s famous A-Z West escape pods are no longer used for camping after the city said the nonprofit would have to attain a commercial camping permit to continue.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2026

Pereira was arrested in his room at an asylum hotel in Uxbridge, west London, and told officers about his "long and tireless battle with the Home Office to try to attain asylum", said the prosecutor.

From BBC • Feb. 28, 2026

Entitled “Superstar CEOs,” the researchers focused on CEOs who attain “superstar” status, as measured by, among other criteria, their company’s ranking on “most admired” lists.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 16, 2026

But few values worth pursuing are perfectly attainable: Courts never achieve perfect justice; nor do democracies attain perfect political equality.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026

Without that quality, his other virtues would not have sufficed to attain the same effect.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli