achieve
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What is net zero and is the UK on track to achieve it?
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
Although it has pledged to achieve carbon neutrality before 2060, it is targeting only a modest 7-10 percent reduction in economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions by 2035, compared to peak levels.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
"Our work indicates that we could use slightly slower initial shocks and still achieve full melting of the diamond in our NIF implosions," said Millot.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
“Weil is on track to achieve both record revenue and profitability in 2026 that will result in a very significant increase in profits per equity partner,” the firm said in a statement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Some artists reach a creative peak quite early in their careers and then “go dry,” while others, after a slow and unpromising start, may achieve astonishingly original work in middle age or even later.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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Neil: Hopefully he helps the team progress and achieves Euro 2028 qualification.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
As the company achieves notable growth — sales more than doubled in the latest quarter — it’s also impressing Wall Street with its profit performance.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
FKT is short for the “fastest known time” that a person or small group achieves on a particular course, usually somewhere it would be difficult or impossible to host an actual race.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
If SpaceX achieves that goal, it could become the most powerful and cost effective launch vehicle ever built.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
Rather than use logos—detailed arguments and eye-glazing statistics about the ways in which the charity achieves the greatest good, distributes its funds, and so on—the ad shoots straight for the heart.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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He suffers from the two facts that he achieved unique fame for the surgery named for him and he didn’t strike out hitters, he finessed them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
Shein first floated plans to go public in 2022, when it achieved its peak valuation of $100 billion in a private funding round.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
He achieved a Ph.D. from Liverpool John Moores University, and soon began to climb the academic ranks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
While Jake achieved a grade 8 in maths, his older brother, Tobias, did not get the pass he wanted after sitting the exam for a fifth time.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
The Populists took direct aim at the conservatives, who were known as comprising a party of privilege, and they achieved a stunning series of political victories throughout the region.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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Managing the makeup of the roughly $31 trillion Treasury market has been among the tools it has deployed toward achieving that goal.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
In that note, Mr. Batiste also connects Mozart with Monk, citing how the two composers combined “melodic simplicity with staggering complexity” to “challenge convention while achieving universal appeal.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Judge Huw Rees said it was "inexplicable" why someone would want to drive at such "extreme" speeds, let alone why a car would be capable of achieving those speeds.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
“Honoring commitments that have already been made to the entertainment industry is an essential step in achieving that goal.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Or maybe I didn’t want to be dismissed as incapable of achieving.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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