achieve
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"We're going to keep that going because we think that's the best way to ultimately achieve the final objective," he added.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
"Our work indicates that we could use slightly slower initial shocks and still achieve full melting of the diamond in our NIF implosions," said Millot.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
You don’t want to go the latter route and, given that you are debt-free, I have every confidence that you will achieve that.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
Are they hopeful at least that they’ll achieve what they want to before the robots take over?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 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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As the company achieves notable growth — sales more than doubled in the latest quarter — it’s also impressing Wall Street with its profit performance.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
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
If SpaceX achieves that goal, it could become the most powerful and cost effective launch vehicle ever built.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
He achieves his own authority, and that is unshakable.
From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin
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The buyback caught investors offside and thus achieved its short-term goal: yields fell.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
In 2025 62.5% of pupils achieved A* to C, 0.3 percentage points up on 2024.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
The technique produced DNA assembly efficiencies two to five times higher than those achieved with conventional restriction enzyme methods.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
What we saw onscreen, along with the catchy music she made, was, in her telling, the fruit of a creative yield achieved by pressing beyond her breaking point.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026
“This is a flower that achieved the impossible,” she told me.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
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Managing the makeup of the roughly $31 trillion Treasury market has been among the tools it has deployed toward achieving that goal.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
In that note, Mr. Batiste also connects Mozart with Monk, citing how the two composers combined “melodic simplicity with staggering complexity” to “challenge convention while achieving universal appeal.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
“Honoring commitments that have already been made to the entertainment industry is an essential step in achieving that goal.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
One way of achieving this aim is to encourage the return of beavers.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Although Chicago was rapidly achieving recognition as an industrial and mercantile dynamo, its leading men felt keenly the slander from New York that their city had few cultural assets.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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