attainment
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The department said that while there is a correlation between marital status and accident rates, it said that correlation could be driven by secondary factors, such as income, educational attainment and employment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
“Marrying early has universally detrimental effects over a range of outcomes, including educational attainment; earnings; physical, reproductive, and mental health; experiences of violence; and likelihood of divorce, particularly for girls,” the study found.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Second-generation black African immigrants also outshine most other demographic groups when it comes to educational attainment: Almost 60% have a bachelor’s degree and a mere 3.6% don’t finish high school.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
The attainment gap between the results achieved by students in the least deprived parts of Scotland and those in the most deprived closed a little in this year's figures - but still remains significant.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
His chest heaved once, as if his large heart, weary of despotic constriction, had expanded, despite the will, and made a vigorous bound for the attainment of liberty.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
"I am very serious about my education, and my educational attainments."
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2023
And chief among those, of course, were his musical attainments, which, in many ways, remain unparalleled.
From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2023
For all his attainments, though, Roth remained forever a younger sibling; the family darling with an underwear drawer so beautifully arrayed his mother led her mah-jongg group on a tour of it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2021
It demands that no fortunate group should ever claim, by virtue of its position or its educational attainments, the unchallenged right to impose its will on others.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 27, 2017
Mary’s is a clergyman, a college friend of her brother’s, and, from his attainments and principles, worthy of the connection.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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