achieve
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"Our results give me some optimism that we can achieve wildlife-coexistence through more nuanced policies that more smartly consider where and when we need to give animals space," Oliver said.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
He recommends deciding exactly what you want to achieve, measuring the space and buying everything you need before you start.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Polls show most Americans still want to achieve homeownership, but the majority of people who want to buy a home “are not in a strong financial position to do that,” Salviati said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
Through a complicated set of moves, we managed to achieve the celebrated “perfect soft landing.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Because there’s no way I could ever achieve escape velocity: the speed an object must reach in order to break away from another object’s gravitational pull.
From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein
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Neil: Hopefully he helps the team progress and achieves Euro 2028 qualification.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
As the company achieves notable growth — sales more than doubled in the latest quarter — it’s also impressing Wall Street with its profit performance.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
FKT is short for the “fastest known time” that a person or small group achieves on a particular course, usually somewhere it would be difficult or impossible to host an actual race.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
In a study published in Neuron, Kerstjens, Zador, and collaborators from Harvard University and ETH Zürich propose a new theory describing how the developing brain achieves this remarkable level of organization.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 25, 2026
After nine years—in April 1957—Joey finally achieves twelve consecutive negative swabs for Hansen’s disease, and she is allowed to leave Carville.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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PayPal’s stock had gained 37% in the three months through Thursday’s close, but it’s down 82% from its peak level achieved in July 2021.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
Every change of president since the return to multiparty politics in 1991 has been achieved through elections.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
The sessions allow a free-flowing conversation about how the patient feels, what help they would like and how that may be achieved.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Middle Eastern leaders have convened in recent days, though mediators said no breakthrough was achieved.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
He achieved such astonishing speed records that he was promoted to superintendent, and then went into the contracting business for himself, building bridges, canals, industrial towns, and factories.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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Germany has a legally binding goal of achieving greenhouse gas neutrality by 2045.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
That motivation seems to have come from the frustration of not achieving England's goal at the World Cup, with the winger returning to training a few days early.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Nicollette Roe learned early on from her family, who had come to the U.S. from Samoa, that achieving the American dream meant education and homeownership.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
In that note, Mr. Batiste also connects Mozart with Monk, citing how the two composers combined “melodic simplicity with staggering complexity” to “challenge convention while achieving universal appeal.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Chess had to become paramount again; it had to be his first priority, or his dream of achieving the World Championship would be just that: a dream.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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