accomplished fact
Example Sentences
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The AIA’s Prowitt said safety is not a fixed, accomplished fact in the aerospace industry, but a “never-ending objective” that requires constant improvement.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 28, 2023
The selection of Grenell, the U.S. ambassador to Germany, as acting DNI is an accomplished fact, and nothing anyone says is likely to change it.
From Washington Post • Feb. 24, 2020
"It's very important that such cooperation with Syrian authorities is established, even now that it's an accomplished fact," Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters on the sidelines of the U.N.
From Reuters • Sep. 27, 2014
Poindexter's head may already have been on the block; Regan had been talking, perhaps inadvertently, about the National Security Adviser's departure as if it were an accomplished fact.
From Time Magazine Archive
The confiscation of those rents was soon to be an accomplished fact; but it was a king rather than a commonweal that reaped the benefit.
From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Power, Eileen
