accomplishments

plural of accomplishment
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as in achievements
the state of being actual or complete a long, difficult project whose accomplishment we wondered if we would ever see

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Recent Examples of accomplishments Trump spent the opening minutes ticking through his administration’s claimed accomplishments. Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 17 July 2026 But those things are not the only accomplishments the author has made with this book. Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026 The 2 car will in fact run in a special paint scheme that honors Wallace’s accomplishments behind the wheel; Austin Cindric gave Wallace a personal tour of the Penske race shop that ended with the special car unveiling. Alex Zietlow july 16, Charlotte Observer, 16 July 2026 Many of our region’s greatest accomplishments have emerged because people from different disciplines, organizations and perspectives have unified to solve problems no single institution could solve alone. Pradeep Khosla, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 July 2026 For Fraser, the accomplishments are about much more than earning certificates. Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 16 July 2026 The editorial team looks for professionals whose experience, leadership, expertise, or accomplishments may provide valuable insights for readers and listeners. Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 16 July 2026 One of the first things Arison did after becoming the Heat’s owner was hire Pat Riley in September 1995, which ended up turning into one of Arison’s top basketball accomplishments. Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 15 July 2026 Dropping this game, especially after fellow co-hosts Canada and Mexico moved on, would have erased all American group stage accomplishments. Sean Gregory, Time, 2 July 2026
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Noun
  • But that’s exactly what happened, and the area proved to be one of the tournament’s smashing successes.
    Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 July 2026
  • Hajer said a big driver of the concentration is successful firms investing early in companies like SpaceX or OpenAI, and riding those successes to huge valuation increases.
    Robert Frank, CNBC, 14 July 2026
Noun
  • The group believes the Iranian regime has ramped up executions under the cover of war.
    Sophia Saifi, CNN Money, 16 July 2026
  • The executions have drawn attention to the ageing death-row population in the US, as well as Florida’s status as the foremost death penalty state.
    Harriet Marsden, TheWeek, 16 July 2026
Noun
  • Rock House is not only a reminder of Alexander’s achievements, a planter, blacksmith and leader of the American Revolution in Mecklenburg County, but also the enslavement of at least 17 people that occurred there.
    Laura Horne, Charlotte Observer, 14 July 2026
  • The proof, like other notable AI achievements in math, required surprisingly little in the way of new ideas.
    Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 14 July 2026
Noun
  • The uncomfortable reality is that most MCP implementations today rely on the model to behave correctly.
    Alex Salazar, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
  • These implementations were also instrumental in immediately communicating some of the trends driving new takes on the high-end fragrance category.
    Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 9 June 2026
Noun
  • Each member derives her own realizations from this experience, with its dual crucibles of grindingly hard work and pop adulation.
    Elizabeth Gulino, Allure, 25 June 2026
  • One of the most striking realizations is just how much this list of names cuts against the grain of the Pochettino’s regular squad selections over his one-and-a-half years in charge.
    Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026
Noun
  • If everything else goes to plan, Tentsile will begin early fulfillment deliveries in May and standard fulfillments in August.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Palestinians and Israeli Jews also came to regard the other side’s actions as fulfillments of their own national nightmares, ethnic cleansing for one and extermination for the other.
    Hussein Agha, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Nolan's non-linear storytelling and minimal exposition challenge some, yet the visual grandeur and powerful performances, including Anne Hathaway's Penelope and a diverse ensemble, are undeniable.
    Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 18 July 2026
  • Subsequent performances have gone on without further run-ins.
    Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 18 July 2026

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