as in fulfills
to carry through (as a process) to completion
you've accomplished your assigned task with your usual efficiency
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Recent Examples of accomplishes
Most of all, AI makers that adopt an AI-to-AI tag team as a safeguard should be mindfully cautious about touting what this functionality accomplishes.
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Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Good morning from Minneapolis, Virtually every team that accomplishes something special needs a few guys to surprise.
—Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025
Effective collaboration has always been essential for creating an efficient team that actually accomplishes its goals.
—Kate Vitasek, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
The body accomplishes this by tightening the blood vessels (vasoconstriction), moving platelets to the injury site (platelet aggregation), and forming fibrin—a protein that helps blood clot.
—Michael Menna, Verywell Health, 17 Jan. 2025
With Klara, Ishiguro accomplishes the unusual — writing an AI who doesn’t mimic human thinking or worldviews for reader comfort.
—Erika Swyler, People.com, 13 Jan. 2025
Funders want to know what their money accomplishes.
—Travis Diehl, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2025
No Other Land No Other Land, the documentary by a collective of Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers, accomplishes something exceedingly rare – allowing viewers everywhere to experience what life is like for Palestinian villagers in the occupied West Bank.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 29 Dec. 2024
Below, in a chat with THR, Birmingham expands on that pitch, while also explaining how Sheridan accomplishes such authenticity in his Native storytelling and why the death of John Dutton (Kevin Costner‘s character) had to happen in order to arrive at this full-circle ending.
—Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Dec. 2024
Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Good morning from Minneapolis, Virtually every team that accomplishes something special needs a few guys to surprise.
—Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025
Effective collaboration has always been essential for creating an efficient team that actually accomplishes its goals.
—Kate Vitasek, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
The body accomplishes this by tightening the blood vessels (vasoconstriction), moving platelets to the injury site (platelet aggregation), and forming fibrin—a protein that helps blood clot.
—Michael Menna, Verywell Health, 17 Jan. 2025
With Klara, Ishiguro accomplishes the unusual — writing an AI who doesn’t mimic human thinking or worldviews for reader comfort.
—Erika Swyler, People.com, 13 Jan. 2025
Funders want to know what their money accomplishes.
—Travis Diehl, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2025
No Other Land No Other Land, the documentary by a collective of Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers, accomplishes something exceedingly rare – allowing viewers everywhere to experience what life is like for Palestinian villagers in the occupied West Bank.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 29 Dec. 2024
Below, in a chat with THR, Birmingham expands on that pitch, while also explaining how Sheridan accomplishes such authenticity in his Native storytelling and why the death of John Dutton (Kevin Costner‘s character) had to happen in order to arrive at this full-circle ending.
—Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for accomplishes
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Natural gas fulfills much of this need, while coal is dirtier, expensive, and increasingly irrelevant for electricity production.—
Ken Silverstein,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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The community's willingness to proactively strengthen its economic foundations today will determine whether crypto fulfills its promise as robust, trusted global infrastructure, or succumbs when faced with inevitable systemic stress.—
Mark R. Weaver,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Aug. 2025
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That’s a tough dichotomy to bridge, but the new 2025 911 Carrera GTS achieves it brilliantly.—
Mark Phelan,
Freep.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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Critically, this approach achieves the required resolution without the enormous deployment complexity of a 20-meter circular primary or the operational overhead of a starshade.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Sep. 2025
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Cece performs elegance, beauty, and perfection while sweating through excruciating pain, enduring enormous levels of judgement.—
Lauren Morrow
September 9,
Literary Hub,
9 Sep. 2025
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Podcast topics are selected with the help of AI, based on Google and social media trends, and then the team may launch five different versions of the show with different titles to see what performs the best.—
Caitlin Huston,
HollywoodReporter,
9 Sep. 2025
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This week’s game against the WarHawks will not simply be about getting in the win column, but how the Crimson Tide executes on both sides of scrimmage ahead of next week’s visit from Wisconsin and, following a bye, the start of SEC play at Georgia on September 20.—
Tom Layberger,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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But, like all technologies, each manufacturer executes it differently.—
Jamie L. LaReau,
USA Today,
26 Aug. 2025
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But prorating three years of player profits down to 12 months, as UEFA’s rule does, reduces the immediate efficacy of successful trading in the market, the very strategy that poorer clubs increasingly rely on to climb the ladder.—
Chris Weatherspoon,
New York Times,
5 Sep. 2025
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The Egyptian government considers the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group, but the United States does not.—
Victoria Moorwood,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
5 Sep. 2025
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The variety of blades can tackle several different pruning jobs, which makes this versatile set your new best friend until the first frost sets in.—
Stephanie Osmanski,
Better Homes & Gardens,
7 Sep. 2025
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The motor makes the turbo’s power boost available sooner.—
Mark Phelan,
USA Today,
7 Sep. 2025
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Goodwood implements a rule where competitors must run their cars on fuel that is at least 70 percent sustainable content, helping to ensure the event’s carbon footprint is reduced, while accommodating the specific needs of historic, and sometimes highly-strung, race cars.—
Alistair Charlton,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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For comparison, Simplifi supports MFA and implements similar encryption practices.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
2 Sep. 2025
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“Accomplishes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/accomplishes. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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