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achieve

[uh-cheev] / əˈtʃiv /


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This is what management are trying to achieve at another site that opened in the 1970s: Weston Favell, on the eastern edge of Northampton.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

On advanced reasoning benchmarks, Beam can achieve comparable scores to GLM-5.2 with three to four times less processing computing, according to Reflection.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

“If you knock out a few sets of pull-ups or biceps curls, you see your muscles popping in a way that is much harder to achieve if you squat.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

In a very real sense, the movement was about leveling the playing field, which is so dramatically tilted against victims that it makes justice nearly impossible to achieve.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

Tolkachev's espionage helped America achieve total air superiority by the late 1980s, earning him the nickname "the Billion Dollar Spy."

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

If it achieves that, the spacecraft will then attempt to deploy satellites designed to expand the company's already massive satellite internet constellation.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

To compound matters, the masculine ego trap also tells a man that he’s not worthy of what he wants until he achieves some nebulous milestone that, again, sets him apart from other men.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

The rub here is that there’s a difference between a film that becomes a cult classic because it’s genuinely underrated, and one that achieves that status through the unholy, rose-colored lens of social media obsession.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026

The test of the Warsh Fed, as with all chairmen, is whether the central bank achieves and maintains price stability.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

A wish that continually approaches but never achieves fulfillment.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon

Royal Mail said the workforce reduction, designed to improve efficiency, would be achieved through voluntary redundancies and people choosing to leave the company.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

"The partnership was set up to deliver significant housing development, create an investor confidence and a platform for other developers to come into the market and invest in Manchester - which it has achieved."

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

It achieved an average detection accuracy of 97.79%, along with a sensitivity of 99.86% and a specificity of 95.72%.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

Derenoncourt has found that Black Americans who migrated north to growing cities in the 20th century achieved economic gains—but their descendants experienced increasing school segregation and incarceration rates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

She’d been sixteen and convinced she had more or less achieved true stardom, despite her name being last in a long list of cast members.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

The auditor would examine whether the program is achieving its goals, how to cut the program’s costs by at least 10% annually and other areas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

From an engineering point of view, "just achieving flight and getting data" would be considered a success, Curlee said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

"It reminded me that we're capable of doing unbelievable things when how badly we want something matches and surpasses the difficulty of achieving it," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

Canadian provinces had looked poised to put American alcoholic products back on their store shelves last month as Trump and Canadian officials appeared close to achieving a new trade deal.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 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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