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attain

[uh-tayn] / əˈteɪn /


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But this year, there has been more widespread awareness that the wealth we are witnessing is just not the kind of wealth most regular people even have the option to attain.

From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2026

Boeing executives have said they are confident they will attain $10 billion annual free cash flow but haven't set a specific target date.

From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026

Meghan Sullivan, a philosophy professor at the University of Notre Dame, participated in one of these meetings and left “skeptical that an artificial agent could attain actual moral virtue,” she wrote in a Substack post.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026

His developers say rival systems could take days to attain such skills.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

If you read and consider it carefully, you will discover in it my most heartfelt desire that you may attain the greatness that Fortune and all your own qualities promise you.

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

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

When an individual attains ILR - also known as settled status - they can access state benefits and use the NHS without extra charges.

From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2025

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

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

He cranks up a voting-themed choral cover of “Golden,” from KPop Demon Hunters, that has attained meme status in lefty corners.

From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2026

The emotional compass of the United Farm Workers of America for decades, the petite mother of 13 attained singular stature as a rule-breaking proto-feminist, godmother of the Chicano power movement and doyenne of American labor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

The Beijing native attained a doctorate in earth sciences from the University of Southern California in 2003.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 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

The volcano grew up seven to ten million years ago, producing fierce eruptions and explosions of ash, which repeatedly wiped out the forests that grew on its slopes, until it attained a tremendous height.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

"This temporal window holds profound significance, as attaining such early detection would substantially augment the probability of cure and improved survival," highlight the researchers.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

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

And in five countries, workers had to wait until mid-July before finally attaining tax freedom.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 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

After being corrected and printed, the one thousand five hundred pages reduced themselves to six hundred, yielding a voluminous treatise on the ninety- nine names of God and formulas for attaining nirvana through respiratory exercise.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende


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