achieve
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Some did not achieve a complete response, and one patient's disease returned after an initial period of medication-free remission.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
Ahn was skeptical that Anthropic can achieve the $2 trillion valuation figure that has been widely circulated.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
In a letter read to the court after the verdict was announced, Gia told the jurors she deeply appreciated the justice they helped her family achieve.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
"If something positive can come from this unbearable loss that we're suffering, that's all we look to achieve."
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
It might seem a marriage made in heaven, but there were still hurdles to be overcome before Kepler could achieve the breakthrough that made him a key figure in the history of science.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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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
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
FKT is short for the “fastest known time” that a person or small group achieves on a particular course, usually somewhere it would be difficult or impossible to host an actual race.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
They said the new deal "achieves this without any government funding or cost to taxpayers".
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
After nine years—in April 1957—Joey finally achieves twelve consecutive negative swabs for Hansen’s disease, and she is allowed to leave Carville.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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The omega-3 and ASA group achieved a nearly identical result, with 57.7% of participants reaching the same target.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
This downtrodden expanse of the Antelope Valley unexpectedly achieved a remarkable turnaround last year, reducing by more than half the number of recreational vehicles squatting on its back roads.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
For the quarter ended June, its key gastro endoscopes division achieved an operating-profit margin of about 23%, which was better than the U.S. bank had expected.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
The sessions allow a free-flowing conversation about how the patient feels, what help they would like and how that may be achieved.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
He achieved such astonishing speed records that he was promoted to superintendent, and then went into the contracting business for himself, building bridges, canals, industrial towns, and factories.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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Germany has a legally binding goal of achieving greenhouse gas neutrality by 2045.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
Nearly 9.8 million investors sought a piece of the company ahead of its debut, with fewer than one in 5,000 achieving success.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
These officials said that price pressures remained broad-based and judged that the Fed should adopt a more restrictive policy stance to meet its commitment to achieving its 2% inflation target.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
Judge Huw Rees said it was "inexplicable" why someone would want to drive at such "extreme" speeds, let alone why a car would be capable of achieving those speeds.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Jim Moore, the last principal of Ector High School before it was closed down as a means of achieving desegregation, felt the same way.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
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