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Definition of rang (up)

past tense of ring (up), chiefly British

as in dialed

to make a telephone call to our friend rang us up to see if we wanted to go to a cricket match

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past tense of ring up

as in achieved

to obtain (as a goal) through effort touted the many diplomatic triumphs that the president supposedly rang up in his first term

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Fitzpatrick was dialed in from the start, holing a 7-foot birdie putt on the opening hole at Le Golf National, reaching the green in two on the par-5 third for birdie and then hitting wedge to 4 feet for birdie on the sixth.

— ABC News, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2026
He's got to get his operations dialed in before its too late.

— Joe Kinsey OutKick, FOXNews.com, 25 Sep. 2026

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While spacecraft-to-spacecraft cryogenic refuelling is yet to be achieved, the ability to refuel storable chemical propellant is still a game-changer.

— Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 27 Sep. 2026
Mid-round, golfers head to the Halfway House for burger dogs and fish tacos, and the Links Margarita has apparently achieved something close to cult status among regulars.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of achieved

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Yann LeCun won the 2018 Turing Award—computer science’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize—along with fellow AI researchers Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio for their work on deep learning, the neural network technology that underpins today’s AI boom.

— Emily Forlini, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2026
Under Kreiz, Mattel also has won new or renewed entertainment licenses, including Disney Princess and Frozen, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Toy Story, KPop Demon Hunters and DC.

— Todd Spangler, Variety, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of won

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In July, Anthropic described three instances where its Claude models accessed the internet during an evaluation and gained unauthorized access to the real systems of three different organizations.

— Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 29 Sep. 2026
Lindvall gained experience with Ludovic de Saint Sernin and the Swedish Fashion Council; Idink worked with independent designer showrooms.

— Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of gained

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Raffles Bali also takes a responsible approach to waste management, using compost fertilizer made from kitchen and landscape waste and repurposing calcium carbonate-rich eggshells from the restaurants for organic fertilizer in the herb garden.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Oct. 2026
Like prediction markets, their power lay as much in predication as prediction, in legislating what can be asked, priced, and made real—or made valuable as art assets.

— Simon Denny, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026

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In photos obtained by the Daily Mail, the singer could be seen smiling in the back seat of an SUV while her soccer player boyfriend of two years grinned from the front seat.

— Meg Walters, InStyle, 28 Sep. 2026
Kenita Lloyd, will depart just short of five years of service at the end of 2026, according to an internal memo obtained by The News and two sources.

— Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 28 Sep. 2026

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