achieve
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“Hiscox had originally aimed to achieve double-digit growth in its retail business by 2028 so if the momentum can be sustained in 2027, this points to the…target being achieved a year early,” the analysts write.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
It will “cost a heck of a lot of capital” to achieve SpaceX’s vision for everything from AI to competing in mobile internet services.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
When he was born in July 2009, Hazard was still a youngster at French club Lille before going on to achieve a successful career at Chelsea and Real Madrid.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Seeing an Afro-Latina woman with a darker skin complexion achieve such a level of success was the representation I needed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Given Franklin’s reputation as an explorer and the nature of his two ships, many expected this would be the Passage-search that would achieve the long-awaited glorious result.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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His film is likable as heck but never quite achieves liftoff.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
They said the new deal "achieves this without any government funding or cost to taxpayers".
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
In a study published in Neuron, Kerstjens, Zador, and collaborators from Harvard University and ETH Zürich propose a new theory describing how the developing brain achieves this remarkable level of organization.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 25, 2026
If the Italian bank achieves 50% control of Commerzbank it would be able to incorporate the German bank’s results in its own accounts, Bank of America says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 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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"Our findings show that early snakes had already achieved remarkable ecological and morphological diversity by the Late Cretaceous, around 80 million years ago," says lead author Tiago Simões, Assistant Professor at Princeton University.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026
Fresenius’s Kabi business achieved a 17% adjusted operating profit margin in the second quarter, with profitability at the unit’s growth vectors entering the 17%-19% margin band for the first time, the analysts say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
McVay understands that the “old-school way” of toughening and preparing players for a season can be achieved without “killing us on the field,” Adams said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
He achieved this by observing the effect of a light-bending phenomenon called gravitational lensing on the stars that became visible while the Sun's dazzling light was obscured.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
The match would continue, indefinitely, until one player achieved ten wins, draws not counting.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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The dissenters said the first step toward achieving that objective would be to start raising interest rates incrementally.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
"Without this infrastructure, achieving the coherent, ultrafast modulation needed for the PTC regime would have been impossible."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026
She placed fourth, achieving the same total as India's bronze medallist Laishram Devi but losing out on a podium place by virtue of weighing more than her rival.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
An analysis by the state’s legislative finance committee found that $2.6 billion in additional K-12 funding fell short of achieving its goals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
To have even a hope of achieving this, the railroads would have to reduce their fares, and Frank Millet would have to intensify his efforts to attract people from all corners of the country.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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