attain
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Is it easier to find the empathy and humanity in playing a character desperate to attain the power than someone already holding it, like an Elon Musk or a Jeff Bezos?
From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026
You certainly did not attain your wealth alone.
From MarketWatch • May 20, 2026
Eventually, those two attain the life they assumed was permanently out of reach by bending to the Chairwoman’s will.
From Salon • Apr. 23, 2026
“In normal life,” Mr. Nguyen writes, “we struggle in order to attain some goal that we really want.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
In the early days of his youth he was sent to serve as a soldier under Paulo Vitelli, so that, once he was versed in that discipline, he might attain some outstanding military rank.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
Vocabulary lists containing attain
Vocabulary from the Constitution of the United States
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Richard Nixon's "Checkers" Speech (1952)
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"The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak, Part Six
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