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She was the first woman to attain the rank of general.attain = gain or reach something with effort
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They hope to attain effective law and order in the region before withdrawing troops.
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Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. (source)
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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
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It is something that some writers reach for their entire careers and never attain. (source)
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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
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Control would be more difficult to attain than it was in the Continuum. (source)attain = achieve
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Theo nodded, awed by the beautiful Angela, three years older than he, so fair-skinned and blonde, so unattainable. (source)unattainable = beyond his reachstandard 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.
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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
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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
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Our goals are attainable.† (source)attainable = able to be gained or reached with effortstandard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
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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
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He attains celebrity status with his evening game of Crazy Cat.† (source)attains = gains or reaches something with effort
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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
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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 effortstandard 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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