attain
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Only then can one attain a view like this and perhaps, with a naked eye, see mountains as they see each other.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026
Is it easier to find the empathy and humanity in playing a character desperate to attain the power than someone already holding it, like an Elon Musk or a Jeff Bezos?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
You certainly did not attain your wealth alone.
From MarketWatch ● May 20, 2026
Global talent visas - which the Home Office offers to senior workers in the science, digital technology, and arts and culture sector - are much more difficult to attain, Turner said.
From BBC ● May 13, 2026
With a loud yet gentle voice, First Turkey said, “Water Monster of the Agave Pond, you must attain medicine from your mother to buy us more time.”
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
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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
But he who attains the principality through popular favour finds himself alone, and has around him either no one or very few who are not ready to obey him.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
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Tina has attained skills that can take her anywhere, David reminds her.
From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026
That mark is based on the valuation SpaceX attained late last year, and is likely to go significantly higher in an IPO.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026
On April 14, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal Party attained a majority in Parliament thanks to by-elections and defections from the opposition Conservatives.
From Barron's ● Apr. 23, 2026
They attained all their military objectives but were forced to withdraw by President Eisenhower of the United States.
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2026
I hadn’t attained that level of status in my career and at my age, I was already considered a has-been.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
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Both Welborn and Ware caution clients not to equate financial independence with attaining a certain level of net worth.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 12, 2026
These disclosures are from 13Ds filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. 13Ds are filed within 10 days of an entity’s attaining more than 5% in any class of a company’s securities.
From Barron's ● Nov. 26, 2025
I often found him, pen and yellow pad in hand, contemplating our nation’s challenges, considering goals to pursue, and developing a strategy for attaining them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2025
Other rock stars followed in Ozzy’s footsteps by launching their own reality shows, but none came close to attaining the same attention.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2025
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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