attain
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The Lakers’ superstar is on an MVP pace like few others before, but to win an NBA title he has to have sustainability that his teammates must help him attain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2026
But this year, there has been more widespread awareness that the wealth we are witnessing is just not the kind of wealth most regular people even have the option to attain.
From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2026
Boeing executives have said they are confident they will attain $10 billion annual free cash flow but haven't set a specific target date.
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026
The surfaces are smoother and more lifelike, there is a closer psychological connection between the two figures, and a surer command of the material allows him to attain greater heights of realism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
I was about twenty-five then, but I felt as if I had only a little life left ahead of me to build my future and attain the position that I wanted.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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But it attains the weight of well-wrought drama as Yosef and his family consider complex questions of home and dislocation, and it’s put together with a strong sense of rhythm and composition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026
Zardari, who already enjoyed immunity while in office, will retain legal protection even after leaving the presidency so long as he attains no other public office.
From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2025
We might even consider a kind of "grand bargain," wherein AI attains freedom and autonomy while humans secure a universal basic income, enabled by a radically restructured economy where many traditional jobs have become redundant.
From Salon ● May 17, 2025
When an individual attains ILR - also known as settled status - they can access state benefits and use the NHS without extra charges.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2025
The average world temperature, he says, would in the end be raised some thirty degrees, till it attains 72°.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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He cranks up a voting-themed choral cover of “Golden,” from KPop Demon Hunters, that has attained meme status in lefty corners.
From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2026
The emotional compass of the United Farm Workers of America for decades, the petite mother of 13 attained singular stature as a rule-breaking proto-feminist, godmother of the Chicano power movement and doyenne of American labor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
Though cats are ubiquitous in modern society, they attained their status as pampered pets relatively recently.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Whatever one’s views of her politics, there can be no denying that everything Omar has attained, from her education to her career, has been earned against high odds.
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026
In contrast, many islands with intensive agriculture attained population densities exceeding 120 per square mile.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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"This temporal window holds profound significance, as attaining such early detection would substantially augment the probability of cure and improved survival," highlight the researchers.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026
Most importantly, being in a less reactive state would give me a better shot at attaining my actual goal—getting medical coverage—instead of simply insulting a customer service person.
From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2026
Actually attaining and sustaining that growth is what’s difficult.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
One way to think about Mahler’s extravagant 90-minute exercise in his search for life’s meaning is as an exercise in attaining optimism in the face of tragedy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Although many of these antisuffrage sentiments may seem ludicrous to us today, they were taken seriously by those who felt threatened by the prospect of women attaining the ballot.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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Richard Nixon's "Checkers" Speech (1952)
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