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attainment

[uh-teyn-muhnt] / əˈteɪn mənt /


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Qualifications Scotland data also shows the attainment gap between rural and urban classification.

From BBC Aug. 4, 2026

For young workers, studies have found the scars from missing a vital period of career attainment and network-building can last for years.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 15, 2026

These populations are more likely to suffer from chronic diseases such as diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity, and face socioeconomic barriers like lower educational attainment and less access to quality healthcare.

From MarketWatch Jul. 15, 2026

Historically, educational attainment has been an effective way of addressing social inequality, and standardized testing is one of the few ways to measure which policies are working and which ones aren’t.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 16, 2026

Sex differences in the factors which predict musical attainment in school aged students.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

"I am very serious about my education, and my educational attainments."

From BBC Oct. 16, 2023

And chief among those, of course, were his musical attainments, which, in many ways, remain unparalleled.

From Salon Feb. 25, 2023

For all his attainments, though, Roth remained forever a younger sibling; the family darling with an underwear drawer so beautifully arrayed his mother led her mah-jongg group on a tour of it.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 2, 2021

It demands that no fortunate group should ever claim, by virtue of its position or its educational attainments, the unchallenged right to impose its will on others.

From Washington Post Dec. 27, 2017

As a result, their attainments in astronomical theory seem to have paled in comparison to their achievements in engineering, medicine, and statecraft.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro




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