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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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While the team ultimately failed to achieve that universal moonshot goal, the broader experiment still managed to produce 17 working proteins that successfully bound to four of the targeted individual toxins.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

It means that athletes can drop weight and still train and exercise and achieve good results.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

To achieve their new level of precision, the team departed from the conventional method of estimating primordial helium.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

In most instances, judges have said school officials may use “race-neutral” policies to achieve racial diversity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

"And just how would you achieve that miracle?"

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

Crucially, the microscope achieves this resolution without sacrificing imaging speed or requiring intense laser illumination.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026

If it achieves that, the spacecraft will then attempt to deploy satellites designed to expand the company's already massive satellite internet constellation.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

To compound matters, the masculine ego trap also tells a man that he’s not worthy of what he wants until he achieves some nebulous milestone that, again, sets him apart from other men.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

Yet however avant-garde in form, Saramago’s prose achieves an expert fluidity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

He achieves his own authority, and that is unshakable.

From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin

Cornered, the liar finally admits, accidentally or intentionally, the truth; justice prevails and catharsis is achieved.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

“He achieved his goal of presenting himself as a centrist, as a moderate,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Researchers at the University Hospital of Bonn and the University of Bonn achieved this remarkable transformation by reprogramming immature red blood cells into neural stem cells, which can eventually develop into brain cells.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026

The recent result was achieved on Quantinuum’s Helios computer, which is already in commercial use.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Having achieved the rank of major general, Garfield resigned his U.S.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow

Accounting for them was essential to achieving the new 0.5% precision.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

This one did something else, reaching extreme heights but never achieving the sustained success of more entrenched conspiracy theories.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

But Flynn warned there was "no shortcut" to achieving independence.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

And, even before the pandemic, about half of the state’s students were not achieving the state’s learning goals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

For they gave me no sign for a month yet that I was any nearer achieving that purpose than I had been at Fish Island.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin


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