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gaining

adjective as in realizing

noun as in attainment

noun as in procuring

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Rather, as it’s done many times over the years, the chip industry will get creative with the design of its core product to realize gains for another decade.

Stocks were cruising to another day of gains on Wednesday when the Fed went and spoiled the party—well, spoiled it for most stocks not named Apple.

From Fortune

The market’s huge gains have been slowing in recent weeks, and many investors say the easiest gains have been made.

From Fortune

While crediting liberalism for leading to the gains of the modern feminist movement, LGBT rights and the civil rights movement, it suggests almost total victory was reached in those fields by the end of the 1980s.

From Ozy

Whether you’re a start-up or a long-time business, your current budget influences your future financial goals and gains.

Consumers are also gaining the ability to take the designs into their own hands as 3D printing becomes more accessible.

Later studies showed that only gaining weight and the return of natural menstruation help improve bone density.

Sudan has been plagued by years of political instability, which has prevented tourism from gaining traction.

Gaining access to them can be fairly easy, which could make them more vulnerable to attack, researchers say.

A third group, Al-Hirak Al Janoubi, is gaining ground with calls for southern Yemen to secede.

Every day they are gaining more strength, as is seen by the presence of so many of them on this coast.

The expression fitted best the cruder, more sordid method of gaining possession of this woman.

The countess-dowager sat fanning herself quietly: for her daughter's words were gaining ground.

Belle Ringold was very shrewd, young as she was, in the arts of gaining and holding the attention of young men.

She had heard in books of girls writing poetry, romance, history—gaining fifties and hundreds.

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On this page you'll find 272 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to gaining, such as: affluent, encouraging, fortuitous, happy, healthy, and helpful.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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