achieve
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“When it comes to investing, the goal is always to achieve the best return with the least amount of risk,” said Forest Dutton, a certified financial planner in Lexington, S.C.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
He is also, at 23, the second youngest player to achieve this feat behind Pele, who did the same at 17 in 1958 when Brazil won the World Cup in Sweden.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
This carefully engineered system creates the illusion of ultrafast rotation, reaching effective rotational speeds far beyond what conventional mechanical systems can achieve.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
"What am I going to do? Where am I going to work? What am I going to achieve? Where am I going to get money?"
From Barron's ● Jul. 11, 2026
The aspiring artist of talent will eventually achieve the real thing.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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Although it cannot match Starship's enormous lifting capacity, it achieves much greater efficiency.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 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
It typically achieves these goals through interest-rate decisions -- cutting borrowing costs to spur economic activity or raising them to cool prices.
From Barron's ● Jun. 14, 2026
Morningstar’s base-case scenario, which it assigns a 50% probability, assumes that SpaceX achieves a reusable Starship rocket and somewhat economical orbital data centers.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 6, 2026
After nine years—in April 1957—Joey finally achieves twelve consecutive negative swabs for Hansen’s disease, and she is allowed to leave Carville.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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Silver, another haven asset that tends to be more volatile, has tumbled 49% from its record of $115 per troy ounce achieved early this year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
Writing in the journal Nature, the team showed that wave amplification can be achieved using a device that simulates extreme rotation without physically spinning.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
And he's just achieved a lifetime ambition: recording a song with Kylie Minogue.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
Chief Executive Oliver Blume has nonetheless outlined an ambition to achieve a margin of between 8% and 10% by 2030—a level Volkswagen hasn’t achieved in at least two decades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Having achieved the rank of major general, Garfield resigned his U.S.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
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But by the time he left office, he was finally achieving something unlikely: becoming a power center of his own.
From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026
“This historic act of generosity will give millions of low- and middle-income children an even stronger shot at achieving the American Dream,” the White House said on its website about the accounts.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
The pair also broke more records on Friday, achieving the longest consecutive run in the UK top 40 and the most weeks in the UK top 10 for any non-Christmas single.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Dodgers third base coach Dino Ebel is proud of what his sons have accomplished as they move closer to achieving their major league dreams.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
The only problem with school, for the kids who aren’t achieving, is that there isn’t enough of it.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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