achievement
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The annual Governors Awards, launched in 2009, recognize lifetime achievement and significant contributions to filmmaking and the motion picture industry.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
Höttges has called T-Mobile’s 2020 acquisition of Sprint his greatest achievement.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
The achievement gives scientists a new way to examine how the brain and body work together to produce complex actions, including walking and flying.
From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026
At the ceremony itself, Lionel Ritchie accepted the Mobo's first-ever lifetime achievement accolade on stage with Tina Turner.
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026
The first great, practical achievement of the new science was Newcomen’s steam engine of 1712—the very engine Swift was presumably mocking when he complained about mills being built where there were no rivers.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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