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Who were the first climbers confirmed to have achieved the goal of reaching the summit of Mt. Everest?

achieve

[uh-cheev] / əˈtʃiv /


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Her brother helped her understand that she didn’t have to achieve the title — she’s always been gay.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 22, 2026

Staff at the care home are "super proud of him" and are "excited" to see his artwork gain wider recognition, with Fawley challenging perceptions of what people can achieve in care.

From BBC Sep. 20, 2026

Because the amount of voltage required to achieve that balance could be measured with exceptional precision, it provided another way to calculate big G.

From Science Daily Sep. 20, 2026

Some analysts doubt Warsh is willing to wait two or three years to achieve that goal, based on his recent tough talk and his pre-Trump history of favoring an aggressive approach to fighting inflation.

From MarketWatch Sep. 19, 2026

The other good news is that it only takes a couple of minutes and a little thought to achieve this, and put some of the basic elements of music to work.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

But the murkiness doesn’t last long in a production that achieves an admirable balance between objectivity and emotion, abstraction and representation.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 18, 2026

There’s a difference between a film that becomes a cult classic because it’s genuinely underrated, and one that achieves that status through the unholy, rose-colored lens of social media obsession.

From Salon Sep. 14, 2026

That’s unusual even by AI-era standards, with analysts noting that a business built around physical hardware rarely achieves margins that high.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

Neil: Hopefully he helps the team progress and achieves Euro 2028 qualification.

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

He achieves his own authority, and that is unshakable.

From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin

"Our work together already shows what can be achieved when our two countries combine our expertise and innovation," the prime minister said.

From BBC Sep. 22, 2026

"Net gains in biodiversity and carbon storage were only achieved when both avoidance interventions were implemented. However, combining all three interventions delivered even greater gains," said Dr. Miranda.

From Science Daily Sep. 21, 2026

The piece suggests that California achieved a limited but meaningful victory.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 21, 2026

It achieved just that, with some of the world's top female athletes going head-to-head in competitive events while also being allowed the space to express their personalities.

From BBC Sep. 18, 2026

The only thing they’d achieved, coming to the alternate world, was to doom more people.

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

The combination of a good proportion of diabetics getting back to normalized glucose levels and achieving sustained weight loss with enicepatide give the drug a competitive profile, Schneider says.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 22, 2026

The so-called doomers’ assertion that AI might decide to wipe out all of humanity—or even “just” topple human civilization—is contingent on it achieving a pace of development not yet seen.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 16, 2026

When Tanisha Saunders graduated from college eight years ago, she felt optimistic that she was on her way to achieving an American dream that included homeownership.

From MarketWatch Sep. 16, 2026

But agreeing on what a new global order should look like and achieving clear, tangible outcomes was a much harder task, and that tension ran through this weekend's summit.

From BBC Sep. 13, 2026

Madison’s more judicious arguments, published as the Virginia Resolutions, were circulating in the national press and achieving the same goal—condemning the Sedition Act but without recourse to nullification.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis




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