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  • When Walt and Billie suggested that he needed a college degree to attain a fulfilling career, Chris answered that careers were demeaning "twentieth-century inventions," more of a liability than an asset, and that he would do fine without one, thank you.  (source)
    attain = achieve
  • It is something that some writers reach for their entire careers and never attain.  (source)
  • And we attained that, or very nearly so. In three batches.  (source)
    attained = achieved
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  • At the end of an afternoon that had contained much excitement, much beautiful evil, one blood-soaked ankle, and a slap from a trusted hand, Liesel Meminger attained her second success story.  (source)
    attained = achieved
  • Control would be more difficult to attain than it was in the Continuum.  (source)
    attain = achieve
  • Theo nodded, awed by the beautiful Angela, three years older than he, so fair-skinned and blonde, so unattainable.  (source)
    unattainable = beyond his reach
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unattainable means not and reverses the meaning of attainable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • First, by beginning your breeding program with dogs you found "excellent in temperament and structure" but of unpedigreed stock, you have made attaining your objective—and I admit I don't fully understand it—immeasurably harder.  (source)
    attaining = achieving
  • His efforts have resulted in a nation that has the highest literacy rate in Europe, some of the best educational attainment rates, and the lowest infant mortality, inflation, and unemployment rates in the Western Hemisphere.†  (source)
    attainment = the gaining or reaching of something with effort; or something gained with effort
  • Our goals are attainable.†  (source)
    attainable = able to be gained or reached with effort
    standard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
  • Their educational attainments were noted, marriages followed, illnesses tabulated, psychological health charted, and every promotion and job change dutifully recorded.†  (source)
    attainments = things gained with effort
  • He attains celebrity status with his evening game of Crazy Cat.†  (source)
    attains = gains or reaches something with effort
  • The storm his barks Bore into the Amnisus, for the cave Of Ilythia known, a dang'rous port, And which with difficulty he attain'd.†  (source)
    attain'd = gained or reached something with effort
  • For in Florence I had at once a wife and an unattained mistress—that is what it comes to—and in the retaining of her in this world I had my occupation, my career, my ambition.†  (source)
    unattained = not gained or reached despite effort
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unattained means not and reverses the meaning of attained. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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