achieve
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The prime minister will say "there is no limit to what we can achieve for the people of Scotland" at an event in North Lanarkshire.
From BBC β Oct. 16, 2026
One way to achieve this, he said: Staff needed to be in the office more.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 16, 2026
According to the researchers' calculations, the B8 reactor would have needed approximately twice as much uranium and more than twice as much heavy water as it actually contained to achieve a sustained nuclear chain reaction.
From Science Daily β Oct. 16, 2026
"That is why country strategies and compacts matter. Roadmaps built around a country's ambitions, the results we are trying to achieve together, and the investments and reforms required to get there," he said.
From Barron's β Oct. 16, 2026
Next day new steps were to be taken; my plans could no longer be confined to my own breast; I must impart them in order to achieve their success.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte BrontΓ«
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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 β Sep. 28, 2026
The rub here is that there’s a difference between a film that becomes a cult classic because it’s genuinely underrated, and one that achieves that status through the unholy, rose-colored lens of social media obsession.
From Salon β Sep. 14, 2026
That’s unusual even by AI-era standards, with analysts noting that a business built around physical hardware rarely achieves margins that high.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 25, 2026
Neil: Hopefully he helps the team progress and achieves Euro 2028 qualification.
From BBC β Aug. 17, 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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When American forces discovered and dismantled the B8 reactor in 1945, it had never achieved criticality.
From Science Daily β Oct. 16, 2026
"The children were good students and often achieved top positions in their classes," he told AFP.
From Barron's β Oct. 16, 2026
In the past, she has portrayed those casting doubts that such a resolution could be achieved as irksome malcontents.
From Slate β Oct. 15, 2026
“There’s no way we could have achieved anything like this even three years ago.”
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 14, 2026
The early technical fussing was crucial; by early August, the three had achieved the transformation reaction in a flask and distilled the “transforming principle” into a highly concentrated form.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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This one did something else, reaching extreme heights but never achieving the sustained success of more entrenched conspiracy theories.
From Slate β Oct. 16, 2026
More than eight decades after the war, the surviving uranium cubes have helped resolve a longstanding historical question, revealing just how far Nazi Germany remained from achieving a critical step toward building an atomic bomb.
From Science Daily β Oct. 16, 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 β Oct. 15, 2026
Appointed commissioner by then-Mayor Eric Adams in November 2024, Ms. Tisch has been achieving outstanding results ever since.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 12, 2026
As Chief Luthuli said, “When the women begin to take an active part in the struggle, no power on earth can stop us from achieving freedom in our lifetime.”
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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