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Recent Examples of attain But if Google attains scalable QC before its competitors, these ambitions become significantly more plausible. Luis E. Romero, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024 Famous explores the dark side of celebrity and the lengths people will go to attain it. Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 6 Dec. 2024 The company still has to attain permits from South Dakota after its application was denied in 2023. Peyton Haug, Twin Cities, 13 Dec. 2024 He was honorably discharged after attaining the rank of Captain. The Hill, 12 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for attain 
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Verb
  • The goal is to achieve a steady burn which will continuously produce electricity like a conventional power plant.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Your relationship and ability to communicate effectively with them, and the collective probability of achieving success, may very well depend on it.
    John Hall, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
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  • By the turn of the century, Hiller writes, these domestic workers headed elsewhere to earn their wages, leaving the housewives to tend to kitchen affairs.
    Michelle Mastro, JSTOR Daily, 18 Dec. 2024
  • This year’s show also featured a reunion of Steel Train, the band Antonoff earned his chops with in the early ‘00s, performing together for the first time in a decade.
    Jem Aswad, Variety, 18 Dec. 2024
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  • Brown was the most successful among them, winning NBA Coach of the Year in 2022-23 after helping the Kings break an NBA-record 16-year playoff drought.
    Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 27 Dec. 2024
  • His soaring rhetoric about a world free of nuclear weapons had helped win him the Nobel Peace Prize, and his views had bipartisan support.
    Abe Streep, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Large companies gain resilience and flexibility, while MSMEs build know-how, human capital, and market access.
    Kweilin Ellingrud, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Under the terms of the deal, the company will gain the exclusive global license to develop, manufacture, and commercialize Chinese drugmaker Hansoh Pharmaceutical Group Co.’s HS-10535, an experimental oral drug that targets the receptors for GLP-1, Merck said in a statement Wednesday.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune Asia, 19 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • As a result, CEOs may reap substantial rewards even when their companies' performance is merely average or even below par compared to their industry peers.
    Jack Kelly, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Apply before bed to reap the benefits of silky, stronger lashes.
    Lorena Meouchi, Vogue, 27 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Judge Rules on Diddy's Claim that Feds Leaked Infamous Cassie Video to CNN Diddy has denied all accusations made against him in a blanket statement shared in December 2023 and obtained by PEOPLE at the time.
    Marina Watts, People.com, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Dallas County records obtained by USA TODAY show Thompson has been transferred from Ellis County jail to Dallas County jail.
    Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Its operations, outfitted to efficiently produce and distribute cane syrup, eventually garnered enough popularity to bottle and distribute more food goods.
    Catherine Jessee, Southern Living, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Bitcoin, Chinese stocks, Indian stocks and private markets each garnered 7% of the vote.
    Jason Gewirtz,Patricia Martell, CNBC, 26 Dec. 2024
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  • Campbell’s reasoning that the commercialization of college sports and the denial of NIL opportunities make eligibility rules more legally suspect could invite a range of challenges.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Johnson will charge just under $2.1 million to the Pacers salary ledger if his contract becomes fully guaranteed, and the Pacers have until early January to make that decision.
    Tony East, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024

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