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attain

[uh-teyn] / əˈteɪn /


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The family’s roots sprang from enslaved forebears, including Willie Rosenthal, whose dozen children and grandchildren rose from the Central Louisiana bayous to attain social and professional prominence.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 21, 2026

Is it easier to find the empathy and humanity in playing a character desperate to attain the power than someone already holding it, like an Elon Musk or a Jeff Bezos?

From Los Angeles Times May 21, 2026

You certainly did not attain your wealth alone.

From MarketWatch May 20, 2026

Global talent visas - which the Home Office offers to senior workers in the science, digital technology, and arts and culture sector - are much more difficult to attain, Turner said.

From BBC May 13, 2026

With a loud yet gentle voice, First Turkey said, “Water Monster of the Agave Pond, you must attain medicine from your mother to buy us more time.”

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young

But it attains the weight of well-wrought drama as Yosef and his family consider complex questions of home and dislocation, and it’s put together with a strong sense of rhythm and composition.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 10, 2026

Zardari, who already enjoyed immunity while in office, will retain legal protection even after leaving the presidency so long as he attains no other public office.

From Barron's Nov. 14, 2025

When an individual attains ILR - also known as settled status - they can access state benefits and use the NHS without extra charges.

From BBC Feb. 6, 2025

“It’s brutal, it’s very painful, it’s a theme that attains indignation, rage,” says Murillo, speaking in Spanish via Zoom from her home in Mexico City.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 13, 2023

The average world temperature, he says, would in the end be raised some thirty degrees, till it attains 72°.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

He served as a military lawyer and attained the rank of Air Force colonel, an experience that informed his interventionist stance in foreign affairs.

From Barron's Jul. 12, 2026

Let’s talk about the weird level of fame that you’ve attained right now.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 7, 2026

That mark is based on the valuation SpaceX attained late last year, and is likely to go significantly higher in an IPO.

From The Wall Street Journal May 18, 2026

Instead, he explores the wounds inflicted by fame’s piercing orbit, implying that absolution isn’t attained by climbing stardom’s echelons, but by falling just before reaching the top, hitting every last regret on the way down.

From Salon Apr. 24, 2026

“All of them have a power of colour which you hadn’t attained before, which in itself is a rare quality, but you have gone further.”

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

Both Welborn and Ware caution clients not to equate financial independence with attaining a certain level of net worth.

From MarketWatch Jul. 12, 2026

But in a reflection of the parents, the show largely ignores the kids until finally bringing them forward and attaining a novelistic quality that separates it from so many less-bingeable series.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 9, 2026

These disclosures are from 13Ds filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. 13Ds are filed within 10 days of an entity’s attaining more than 5% in any class of a company’s securities.

From Barron's Nov. 26, 2025

Other rock stars followed in Ozzy’s footsteps by launching their own reality shows, but none came close to attaining the same attention.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 22, 2025

My questions lead to more questions, most urgently how becoming the leader of an Empire I loathe can possibly result in my attaining “true freedom—of body and of soul.”

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir




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