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achieve

[uh-cheev] / əˈtʃiv /


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It was at this meeting that Peake told Efan the practical steps on how to achieve his dream of becoming an astronaut.

From BBC Aug. 12, 2026

"We are in this process to achieve a democratic and free Venezuela," the politician wrote on X on Tuesday.

From Barron's Aug. 12, 2026

These strategies can help boost near-term demand and give customers more purchasing power than they could achieve alone.

From MarketWatch Aug. 12, 2026

I’m willing to bet we can actually achieve such a utopian outcome, even if it takes another century.

From Salon Aug. 12, 2026

How Uncle Jack won’t ever get to see a Lockwood achieve what his big brother was after.

From "Fast Pitch" by Nic Stone

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

They said the new deal "achieves this without any government funding or cost to taxpayers".

From BBC Jul. 21, 2026

Although it cannot match Starship's enormous lifting capacity, it achieves much greater efficiency.

From Science Daily Jul. 11, 2026

It is just as easy to find critics who think AI is just the latest tech fad that is doomed to fizzle before it achieves anything.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 7, 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

Zambia has a long record of transferring power through the ballot box, with every change of president since the return to multiparty politics in 1991 achieved through elections.

From Barron's Aug. 14, 2026

In beating Jack Della Maddalena last year to become a two-division champion, however, Makhachev ticked off a goal which Nurmagomedov never achieved.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

Grok 4.6 achieved a score in line with OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol model, but not quite as good as Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5 and Fable 5 models, according to Artificial Analysis.

From MarketWatch Aug. 12, 2026

The German energy company has achieved around 68% of the mid-point of guidance, which is 2.8 billion euros, they note.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

What if the solution to the structure of DNA could be achieved by the same “tricks” that Pauling had pulled?

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Chatterjee believes the company is capable of achieving the Rule of 50 — meaning that its annual revenue growth and profit margin would add up to 50% or more — by fiscal 2030.

From MarketWatch Aug. 13, 2026

The trouble here is the closer he comes to achieving it, the less Mitchell himself seems to exist.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

“We’re achieving this even during a period where there’s a fair amount of macro uncertainty.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 9, 2026

According to new analysis by the King's Fund, 15% of England's adult population - those aged 16 and over - in 1993 was obese, with rates achieving a record high of 30% in 2024.

From BBC Aug. 7, 2026

Though no fan of the Inka, he conceded that “only a very small number of empires throughout the whole world have succeeded in achieving this feat.”

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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