achiever
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By that measure, 59-year-old Rory Bremner is a high achiever.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 16, 2025
Before the fall, Tina had been a high achiever - she and her husband Mark met while working as navigators in the RAF, and Tina went on to retrain as a lawyer.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2025
Rob was a high achiever who worked hard and played hard, while I struggled to find my footing as a part-time writer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2024
Growing up in Philadelphia, Sissoko was outspoken, a high achiever, captain of the high school debate team.
From New York Times ● May 28, 2024
If we scratch below the surface of every great achiever, do we always find the equivalent of the Michigan Computer Center or the hockey all-star team—some sort of special opportunity for practice?
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
In her math classes, Chacon is developing a growing cadre of high achievers in a student population that comes almost entirely from high-poverty families.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
At an estate nestled in New York’s Hudson Valley, a group of high achievers gathered to talk about the sacrifices and disappointments that can come with success.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
Even though impostor feelings are common among high achievers, many people keep them to themselves.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 5, 2026
As age has hit, he's had to take a back seat to the more recent crop of achievers - Liel Abada, Jota, Daizen Maeda, Nicolas Gerrit-Kuhn.
From BBC ● May 17, 2025
So it appears that while it is easier for a few high achievers to scale the summits of wealth, for many others it has become harder to move up from one economic class to another.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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