achievement
Example Sentences
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Per the Hollywood Reporter, Wenders received a lifetime achievement award at the German Film Awards last week and addressed the “Wrong Move” issue in his speech, saying that he would not shoot the scene today.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026
A giant twist in the series’ penultimate episode, “The Garden,” came with the reveal that the crowning achievement motivating Deborah all season long, a sold-out Madison Square Garden performance, was a cruel illusion.
From Salon • May 29, 2026
Mr. Blair hopes Labour will replicate his earlier achievement, but this time the party would have to do it from a standing start economically and politically.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
The new University of Houston achievement pushes the record 18 degrees C higher to 151 K.
From Science Daily • May 27, 2026
The first great, practical achievement of the new science was Newcomen’s steam engine of 1712—the very engine Swift was presumably mocking when he complained about mills being built where there were no rivers.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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