attain
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You might assume that only certain wealthy folks attain financial independence.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 12, 2026
“It might be an optimal arrangement for employees to work from home one to two days a week, where they maintain productivity, maintain mental health, and still attain the social connectedness they need,” says Cuevas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
Is it easier to find the empathy and humanity in playing a character desperate to attain the power than someone already holding it, like an Elon Musk or a Jeff Bezos?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
Global talent visas - which the Home Office offers to senior workers in the science, digital technology, and arts and culture sector - are much more difficult to attain, Turner said.
From BBC ● May 13, 2026
“Now, what standard did you attain in school?”
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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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
We might even consider a kind of "grand bargain," wherein AI attains freedom and autonomy while humans secure a universal basic income, enabled by a radically restructured economy where many traditional jobs have become redundant.
From Salon ● May 17, 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
Esthetics as a parlor affectation is ludicrous and sometimes a little obscene; as a way of life it sometimes attains dignity.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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Upon arriving in India on 30 May, Min Aung Hlaing visited Bodh Gaya and offered prayers at the Mahabodhi Temple, built at the site where Buddha is believed to have attained enlightenment.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026
Lowery explores the wounds inflicted by fame’s piercing orbit, implying that absolution isn’t attained by climbing stardom’s echelons, but by falling just before reaching the top, hitting every last regret on the way down.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2026
On April 14, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal Party attained a majority in Parliament thanks to by-elections and defections from the opposition Conservatives.
From Barron's ● Apr. 23, 2026
Last year, it attained a valuation of $2.96 billion and recently finished two years of digitizing maps and other documents from the state archives in neighboring Zambia, where it hit pay dirt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026
They might or might not have counted themselves happy, though; happiness as they conceived it then was a thing attained, a grand state, involving a fiefdom to survey from the plump comfort of their dotage.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
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Both Welborn and Ware caution clients not to equate financial independence with attaining a certain level of net worth.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 12, 2026
But he was well on his way to "attaining his American dream," Ronaldo Salgado said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026
But in a reflection of the parents, the show largely ignores the kids until finally bringing them forward and attaining a novelistic quality that separates it from so many less-bingeable series.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
Other rock stars followed in Ozzy’s footsteps by launching their own reality shows, but none came close to attaining the same attention.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2025
Although many of these antisuffrage sentiments may seem ludicrous to us today, they were taken seriously by those who felt threatened by the prospect of women attaining the ballot.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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Richard Nixon's "Checkers" Speech (1952)
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"The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak, Part Six
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