- present participle of attain.
attaining
Example Sentences
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And in five countries, workers had to wait until mid-July before finally attaining tax freedom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
Large Urban Areas had the highest proportion of student attaining grades A to C at National 5 levels with 80.3%, while Remote Small Towns had the lowest at 71.6%.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
But that estimate isn’t based on actual salary increases employees received after attaining an AI certification; it comes from a model trained on government salary data and the salary ranges on job postings, Abdelwahed noted.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
Few of King’s staff supported the effort, worrying that the strike — and the planned Poor People’s Campaign in Washington — distracted from the main goal of attaining voting and political rights for Black Americans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 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
