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attain
verb as in achieve, accomplish
Example Sentences
How much money that totals depends on factors such as the amount of time served, how busy their fire station was and what rank they attained.
"The truth is, Ethan had successfully attained a 2:1 honours degree, despite the university repeatedly informing him he had been unsuccessful."
Shannon is baffled by her self-denial, but Hannah has attained an understanding of home not as a physical place but as a spiritual bulwark, born out of love and patient respect.
And according to internal documents attained by The Times, debris crews were regularly confused how to handle contaminated pool water — which researchers have found to contain trace amounts of lead, arsenic and other toxic chemicals.
The demand for constant perfection and precision — and the wreckage the human body must endure to attain such excellence — in professional sports is entirely outrageous and unrealistic.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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