achieve
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Trump posted in all caps on his Truth Social platform, though he did not specify how he would achieve a sales halt.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
“Now, much will depend on the degree of economic pain that the Iranian regime is willing to bear to achieve its military and geopolitical objectives,” said Hamad Hussain, an economist at Capital Economics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
Values such as not killing to achieve their goals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
Helen Miller, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, said: "Economic growth in every postcode sounds great and is something we would all love. I think it'll actually be much harder to achieve in practice."
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
Some artists reach a creative peak quite early in their careers and then “go dry,” while others, after a slow and unpromising start, may achieve astonishingly original work in middle age or even later.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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As the company achieves notable growth — sales more than doubled in the latest quarter — it’s also impressing Wall Street with its profit performance.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
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
Whether SK Hynix achieves anything close to that is difficult to say, but it seems nearly certain that another cyclical downturn will come eventually.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
A wish that continually approaches but never achieves fulfillment.
From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon
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The company said it achieved an accuracy rate of more than 90 percent across seven major types of cancer, and now plans to test in real-world programmes.
From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026
“I understand that meaningful atonement is not achieved through an exhibition . . . It is a continuing responsibility, demonstrated through listening, learning and one’s conduct over time.”
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026
The breakthrough achieved by OpenAI’s Astra and Anthropic’s Fable 5.1 is that they can find their own resources, according to Nguyen, who has sold two companies to Apple.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
However, City have also achieved around £300m worth of player sales this summer, illustrating the vast turnover at the start of the post-Guardiola era.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
For one thing, I’d picked up on the simple, encouraging correlation between how long I practiced and how much I achieved.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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In Glasgow, 68% of P1,P4 and P7 pupils were achieving the expected levels of literacy in 2024/25 - the joint lowest rate in Scotland.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
After achieving a historic surplus in 2025, China's trade has continued to boom this year, thanks largely to heightened overseas demand for semiconductors, computing hardware and other products linked to the artificial intelligence boom.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
Shvartsman and his associates “arranged meetings” with “contacts and stars” associated with the movie in the hopes of achieving his goal of a pardon, the lawsuit said, though it doesn’t state specifically whom he targeted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
“All members agreed that gradually removing monetary stimulus is consistent with achieving the medium-term inflation target.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
But like Emma, Newman believed that you could get to heaven only through accepting Jesus’s teachings, by achieving a full sympathy of spirit with God’s spirit.
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
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