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attain

[uh-tayn] / əˈteɪn /


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The district would then “have the option to immediately accept the proposal submitted by the highest ranked” developer or to enter negotiations with the developer to attain the best deal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

Some go so far as to receive diplomas from the Wine & Spirits Education Trust, Rudman added—a level of accreditation that many full-time wine professionals don’t ever attain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

Here, “fame” doesn’t merely suggest flashy movie-star celebrity; it’s a status you can attain in any industry, so long as you climb to its upper ranks.

From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026

Many women wait to have kids until they attain career goals and feel financially secure.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 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

But it attains the weight of well-wrought drama as Yosef and his family consider complex questions of home and dislocation, and it’s put together with a strong sense of rhythm and composition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026

Zardari, who already enjoyed immunity while in office, will retain legal protection even after leaving the presidency so long as he attains no other public office.

From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2025

We might even consider a kind of "grand bargain," wherein AI attains freedom and autonomy while humans secure a universal basic income, enabled by a radically restructured economy where many traditional jobs have become redundant.

From Salon ● May 17, 2025

A desire to maintain privacy as she attains the kind of visibility that has people curious about her dating life is its own type of Hollywood thriller.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2025

He attains celebrity status with his evening game of Crazy Cat.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

If we are lucky enough to survive into our 20s, and have attained some degree of adult consciousness, we all will have lived a coming-of-age story.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

He served as a military lawyer and attained the rank of Air Force colonel, an experience that informed his interventionist stance in foreign affairs.

From Barron's ● Jul. 12, 2026

Upon arriving in India on 30 May, Min Aung Hlaing visited Bodh Gaya and offered prayers at the Mahabodhi Temple, built at the site where Buddha is believed to have attained enlightenment.

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026

That mark is based on the valuation SpaceX attained late last year, and is likely to go significantly higher in an IPO.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026

But even then, as he swerved back up onto the porch, Mercedes usually managed to uncork a half-dozen infinitely annoying gravel bits that plinked around his feet before he attained her son’s door.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

Most importantly, being in a less reactive state would give me a better shot at attaining my actual goal—getting medical coverage—instead of simply insulting a customer service person.

From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2026

Large Urban Areas had the highest proportion of student attaining grades A to C at National 5 levels with 80.3%, while Remote Small Towns had the lowest at 71.6%.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

Lee, speaking at the Shanghai conference, said he was skeptical of what he described as Silicon Valley’s “winner-take-all” approach to attaining artificial general intelligence—autonomous systems that can surpass human capabilities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

Few of King’s staff supported the effort, worrying that the strike — and the planned Poor People’s Campaign in Washington — distracted from the main goal of attaining voting and political rights for Black Americans.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2026

Although many of these antisuffrage sentiments may seem ludicrous to us today, they were taken seriously by those who felt threatened by the prospect of women attaining the ballot.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler




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