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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] / əˈtʃiv /


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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

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

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

By being connected actively to the experiences that our customers have, we’re able to feel empathy that many business owners don’t necessarily have the ability to achieve.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

To Collins, Bobby represented a second existence—the boy’s career was a vicarious entry to a level of chess mastery he himself would never achieve.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

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

But the murkiness doesn’t last long in a production that achieves an admirable balance between objectivity and emotion, abstraction and representation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

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

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

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

Rather than use logos—detailed arguments and eye-glazing statistics about the ways in which the charity achieves the greatest good, distributes its funds, and so on—the ad shoots straight for the heart.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

However, only the group receiving feedback about its walking pattern achieved a lasting reduction in a key measure of knee loading.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

Still, Anthony admired all that Willard had achieved, and she eagerly accepted help from the group.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

Many clubs have tried to copy it without achieving the same level of success.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

“Collaboration with the U.S. is a prerequisite for achieving results; when that collaboration is restricted or denied, it renders your work meaningless,” Capella said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 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

Our involvement will be so great that we cannot—without national humiliation—stop short of achieving our complete objectives.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin




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