succeeded
Example Sentences
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Karen’s lawyer succeeded in getting an emergency stay at the 11th hour until a court of appeals judge can review her case further.
If he’d succeeded in getting medical retirement, he would have received 85% of his salary for life, tax-free, the Sacramento County D.A.’s office said.
From Los Angeles Times
“He really believed if he succeeded, you were going to succeed. It wasn’t about a handout, it was a hand up.”
From Los Angeles Times
They include "those who have not succeeded and refuse to communicate, those who are hospitalised, those who are under arrest or detained", the director general said.
From Barron's
The Campus Norrköping researchers, together with colleagues in Lund and New Jersey, have now succeeded in creating a method where polymerization can happen using visible light only.
From Science Daily
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