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Who were the first climbers confirmed to have achieved the goal of reaching the summit of Mt. Everest?

achieve

[uh-cheev] / Ι™ΛˆtΚƒiv /


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The team's calculations show that tungsten contamination at a concentration of just one part in 10,000 can approximately double the pressure required to achieve fusion ignition.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

Hoisting that golden trophy for his acting is one of the only Hollywood milestones that Cruise has yet to achieve.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

The European Union's top commerce official said that it was crucial to achieve "tangible outcomes" in talks set to wrap up in China on Friday.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 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

They had physical dexterity that people today are unable to achieve even after years of practising yoga or t’ai chi.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

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

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

That’s a six pound average for a fish that rarely achieves that sort of size.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

Neil: Hopefully he helps the team progress and achieves Euro 2028 qualification.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 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

Occasionally executioners even achieved a kind of celebrity status.

From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2026

"A lot has been achieved in a short period of time", said Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh, a law professor at the University of Amsterdam who served as a legal expert in proceedings before all three courts.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

Urschel’s paper, titled “On the Growth Factor of Random Matrices,” is one in a deluge of AI-assisted proofs that mathematicians have achieved in this new era when they can combine their genius with supercomputing power.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

“Our epic deployment ends today and what this team achieved is amazing,” Keeler said Thursday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

More than anything, I don’t want to mess up the balance I achieved at the Ranch.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

I have had thousands of conversations over the years with young families who have dreams of living debt-free and achieving major financial goals, like owning a home or sending their children to college.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

"We are working on it. For us, South Korea is an important country. And I really hope for momentum, continuation, and concrete results that we are truly achieving with them," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

“Justice requires more than achieving certain results,” he said.

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

They differed primarily in their techniques for achieving that end.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson




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