Achieve
verb
To accomplish or reach a goal or purpose through effort, skill, or courage.
She worked hard to achieve her dream.
Often appears as...
- achieve a goal
- achieve success
verb
To successfully complete a task or realize an aspiration.
We achieved our aim of becoming carbon neutral.
Often appears as...
- achieve an aim
- achieve a target
verb
To get or attain as the result of exertion, action, or conduct.
He achieves high marks in his exams.
Often appears as...
- achieve high marks
- achieve a victory
verb
To bring about an intended result, complete or fulfill.
She achieved her ambition to become a doctor.
Often appears as...
- achieve an ambition
- achieve a dream
verb
To accomplish or reach a goal or purpose through effort, skill, or courage.
She worked hard to achieve her dream.
Often appears as...
- achieve a goal
- achieve success
verb
To successfully complete a task or realize an aspiration.
We achieved our aim of becoming carbon neutral.
Often appears as...
- achieve an aim
- achieve a target
verb
To get or attain as the result of exertion, action, or conduct.
He achieves high marks in his exams.
Often appears as...
- achieve high marks
- achieve a victory
verb
To bring about an intended result, complete or fulfill.
She achieved her ambition to become a doctor.
Often appears as...
- achieve an ambition
- achieve a dream
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Effort Implied
Using 'achieve' suggests effort was made, more than just completing something.
She trained for months to achieve a new personal best.
Pro Tip 2/3Positive Outcome
'Achieve' is used when the result is positive and viewed as a success.
Despite the difficulties, they managed to achieve a remarkable turnaround.
Pro Tip 3/3Personal Ambition
Often relates to personal goals or dreams that require determination.
He eventually achieved his lifelong ambition to sail around the world.
Pro Tip 1/3Effort Implied
Using 'achieve' suggests effort was made, more than just completing something.
She trained for months to achieve a new personal best.
Pro Tip 2/3Positive Outcome
'Achieve' is used when the result is positive and viewed as a success.
Despite the difficulties, they managed to achieve a remarkable turnaround.
Pro Tip 3/3Personal Ambition
Often relates to personal goals or dreams that require determination.
He eventually achieved his lifelong ambition to sail around the world.
Pro Tip 1/3Effort Implied
Using 'achieve' suggests effort was made, more than just completing something.
She trained for months to achieve a new personal best.
Pro Tip 2/3Positive Outcome
'Achieve' is used when the result is positive and viewed as a success.
Despite the difficulties, they managed to achieve a remarkable turnaround.
Pro Tip 3/3Personal Ambition
Often relates to personal goals or dreams that require determination.
He eventually achieved his lifelong ambition to sail around the world.
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The incredible history...
because he was obsessed with his mortality. He spent his last years desperately employing alchemists and deploying expeditions in search of elixirs of life that would help him achieve immortality. And as early as the first year of his reign, he began the construction of a massive underground necropolis
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How to use rhetoric to...
where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. In both cases, the speaker's present their audience with a possible future and try to enlist their help in avoiding or achieving it. But what makes for good deliberative rhetoric, besides the future tense?
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What happens when our...
When the A.I. is weak, it performs useful or amusing actions that cause its user to smile. When the A.I. becomes superintelligent, it realizes that there is a more effective way to achieve this take control of the world and stick electrodes into the facial muscles of humans
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Snow Leopards: Ghosts in...
individuals so every coat is like a fingerprint yeah it's like that yeah so they have unique patterns on the fur and then this helps us you know to identify you've been camera shopping for what seven years in this reserve yeah why do you do it what are you hoping to achieve
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The psychological weight...
imagined my future healthy self and started living that life now what kinds of foods i would eat how many calories i would need to maintain a healthy weight for a lifetime that would be the way i would achieve my goal i had to come up with strategies that i
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How to recognize a...
not about some particular government or technology, but the very idea that humanity can be molded into an ideal shape. Think back to the perfect world you imagined. Did you also imagine what it would take to achieve? How would you make people cooperate?
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History vs. Vladimir...
unprecedented opportunities for women, and some of the most important scientific advancements of the century. Life may not have been luxurious, but nearly everyone had a roof over their head and food on their plate, which few countries have achieved."
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At what moment are you...
And research into cryonics hopes to achieve the same by freezing dying people and reviving them later when newer technology is able to help them. See, if the cells are frozen, there's very little molecular movement, and diffusion practically stops.
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What makes muscles grow?...
Your brain and muscles are perfectly poised to help you achieve this goal. First, your brain sends a signal to motor neurons inside your arm. When they receive this message, they fire, causing muscles to contract and relax,
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Watch This Veteran Fly...
the fact that I was placed in an orphanage made it more important to have a family and to make the family function the way it should function and I think we achieved that the question was asked
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The incredible history...
because he was obsessed with his mortality. He spent his last years desperately employing alchemists and deploying expeditions in search of elixirs of life that would help him achieve immortality. And as early as the first year of his reign, he began the construction of a massive underground necropolis
Video examples
How to use rhetoric to...
where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. In both cases, the speaker's present their audience with a possible future and try to enlist their help in avoiding or achieving it. But what makes for good deliberative rhetoric, besides the future tense?
Video examples
What happens when our...
When the A.I. is weak, it performs useful or amusing actions that cause its user to smile. When the A.I. becomes superintelligent, it realizes that there is a more effective way to achieve this take control of the world and stick electrodes into the facial muscles of humans
Video examples
Snow Leopards: Ghosts in...
individuals so every coat is like a fingerprint yeah it's like that yeah so they have unique patterns on the fur and then this helps us you know to identify you've been camera shopping for what seven years in this reserve yeah why do you do it what are you hoping to achieve
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The psychological weight...
imagined my future healthy self and started living that life now what kinds of foods i would eat how many calories i would need to maintain a healthy weight for a lifetime that would be the way i would achieve my goal i had to come up with strategies that i
Video examples
How to recognize a...
not about some particular government or technology, but the very idea that humanity can be molded into an ideal shape. Think back to the perfect world you imagined. Did you also imagine what it would take to achieve? How would you make people cooperate?
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History vs. Vladimir...
unprecedented opportunities for women, and some of the most important scientific advancements of the century. Life may not have been luxurious, but nearly everyone had a roof over their head and food on their plate, which few countries have achieved."
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At what moment are you...
And research into cryonics hopes to achieve the same by freezing dying people and reviving them later when newer technology is able to help them. See, if the cells are frozen, there's very little molecular movement, and diffusion practically stops.
Video examples
What makes muscles grow?...
Your brain and muscles are perfectly poised to help you achieve this goal. First, your brain sends a signal to motor neurons inside your arm. When they receive this message, they fire, causing muscles to contract and relax,
Video examples
Watch This Veteran Fly...
the fact that I was placed in an orphanage made it more important to have a family and to make the family function the way it should function and I think we achieved that the question was asked
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Ben Carson
American Scientist
You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can - prepare, pray and achieve - to make it happen.
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Bad Bunny
Puerto Rican Singer
You learn a lot in life but there are a lot of tools and resources in school that help you grow professionally and personally for whatever goal you may want to achieve.
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Lao Tzu
Chinese Philosopher
If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.
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Thomas Jefferson
American President
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
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LeBron James
American Basketball Player
As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you - but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.
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Zig Ziglar
American Author
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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Ayn Rand
Russian Writer
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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Albert Einstein
German Physicist
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
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Shakira
Musician
You can't achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice.
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Les Brown
American Speaker
Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.
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Ben Carson
American Scientist
You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can - prepare, pray and achieve - to make it happen.
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Bad Bunny
Puerto Rican Singer
You learn a lot in life but there are a lot of tools and resources in school that help you grow professionally and personally for whatever goal you may want to achieve.
Quote examples
Lao Tzu
Chinese Philosopher
If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.
Quote examples
Thomas Jefferson
American President
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
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LeBron James
American Basketball Player
As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you - but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.
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Zig Ziglar
American Author
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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Ayn Rand
Russian Writer
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Quote examples
Albert Einstein
German Physicist
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
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Shakira
Musician
You can't achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice.
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Les Brown
American Speaker
Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.
Example 1 of 10
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