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achieved

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verb

past tense of achieve

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Recent Examples of achieved
Verb
Alpha has achieved several successful launches, but setbacks and failures have kept Firefly from establishing a routine launch cadence. Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 6 Sep. 2026 OpenAI is open about the fact that the numbers are achieved under the best possible conditions and may be slightly different from the models available in the production ChatGPT product that most users can access. Emily Forlini, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2026 Both come from humble beginnings and achieved great personal and financial success over the years. Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026 Across 2024-25, Newcastle brought in £52m from matchday income, less than half of what four of the ‘Big Six’ achieved. Chris Waugh, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026 Hammer achieved the hazy effect by placing her bifocals in front of her camera, effectively drawing a comparison between her eye and her lens. Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 4 Sep. 2026 For decades, quality has largely been achieved through downstream activities such as monitoring, query resolution and reconciliation. Avik Pal, Forbes.com, 4 Sep. 2026 Beijing aims to transform the region into a high-altitude green energy powerhouse, with projects that include a $168 billion megadam, currently under construction, that could stretch the limits of what human engineering has achieved. Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2026 Lilly said a study showed people on its experimental, next-generation weight-loss shot retatrutide achieved weight loss of 19% to 28%. Ken Alltucker, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for achieved
Adjective
  • Her blinkered perspective is consumed with semi-realized introspection and self-reprobation.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 13 May 2026
Verb
  • In this new culture, freedom was attained not through engagement in political struggle but through individual consumer choices.
    Robert Rubsam, New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2026
  • The Tennessee singer-songwriter, actor, and philanthropist hailed from a vanishing class, a 20th-century monocultural phenomenon who attained a household-name status that never lost its luster.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Scrubbing showers, vacuuming floors, and cleaning out the fridge are tasks to be accomplished, not to be enjoyed, right?
    Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 15 Sep. 2026
  • But before the bond hits the ballot, district officials wanted to redraw its boundaries and identify projects that could be accomplished without requesting a tax increase from voters.
    Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 15 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • Some of the administration’s attempts to cancel research grants that focused on topics like gender, diversity, equity and inclusion have been reversed, but roughly 1,240 grants remain terminated, according to a tracking project called Grant Witness.
    Aria Bendix, NBC news, 15 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • As someone who still brings up how James Hinchcliffe and Sharna Burgess should’ve won season 23 in casual conversation, I am so pumped Sharna is back in the ballroom after four years.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Laleh Marzban, who won Best Actress in Venice Film Festival’s Orizzonti sidebar, has become the subject of a harsh smear campaign by Islamic Republic state media over comments in her acceptance speech dedicating the prize to the women of Iran.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 16 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Or maybe Sheriff Kane fulfilled her debt to Zoe not by rallying the town around her in 2016, but by killing her target in 2026?
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 13 Sep. 2026
  • Men and boys fulfilled traditional roles around a large circular drum, beating it rhythmically.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • At the beginning of Roman's design process, the fuel capacity was chosen to permit a maximum mass of 21,605 pounds (9,800 kilograms), yet the finished spacecraft came in lighter at 17,760 pounds (8,065 kilograms).
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 15 Sep. 2026
  • While a language model can learn from a finished document or piece of code, an agent needs to learn how to choose actions, use tools, respond to intermediate results and recover from mistakes.
    Wen Shao, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Community members brought knowledge and experiences to the table that researchers could not have gained at a distance.
    Caroline Montojo, STAT, 14 Sep. 2026
  • The 61-year-old—who owns 40% of his tech company—has gained around $122 billion since this time in 2025, nearly doubling his wealth to a whopping $262 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2026

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“Achieved.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/achieved. Accessed 20 Sep. 2026.

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