3 uses
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Definition
to gain or reach something with effort
- She was self-absorbed and self-approving because she had attained that quality of sentimentality.Chapter 4 (75% in)
- Mr. Dyer did finally, for reasons and purposes admitted and justified, attain to New Wurttemberg.Chapter 4 (90% in)
- But she also discovered that business women may have friendships and enmities as frankly as men and may revel in a bliss which no housewife attains—a free Sunday.Chapter 37 (7% in)
There are no more uses of "attain" in Main Street.
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