achieve
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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass took office four years ago with a reputation as a coalition builder — someone capable of bringing competing factions together to achieve a common goal.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026
A blistering rally for the S&P 500’s tech stocks—up 36.3% over April and May—has more than outweighed a slump in energy companies, helping the index achieve a 16.3% total return.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026
The returns have been attractive, but patience has been required to achieve solid returns for long periods.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026
Blockaders even developed a legal argument to justify their actions, drawing on the common law defense of necessity, which allows someone to break a law to achieve a greater moral good.
From Slate • Jun. 2, 2026
What Ptolemy had managed to achieve was a system that accurately predicted movements in the heavens.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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