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- noun Plural form of
achievement .
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Examples
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I don't need to practice humility; downplaying my achievements is my default state.
The Awesome Movement and the Dreaded Even Thoughs karenhealey 2010
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The others need to buck up to improve, and if marketing their achievements is the way they are doing it, good for them.
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So let us not imagine that what we call our achievements are wholly or even largely our own.
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Well, I don't know what you call achievements; but I've jolly well put a stop to the games of the other fellows in the other departments.
Heartbreak House George Bernard Shaw 1903
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While listing what he called his achievements overhauling health care, ending the war in Iraq and fighting al-Qaeda, the president said he needed another term to fully address the economy, the environment and other issues.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2011
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These scandals overshadow most of what he calls the achievements of his government, which would in any case hardly make it onto the list of "memorable moments" of 2009.
Slovak Spectator 2009
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Thanks to 9/11 and truckloads of homeland security money, the stain of those achievements is now flowing as swiftly and freely as streams of data on a vast fiber optic network.
Stephan Salisbury: Surveillance, America's Pastime Stephan Salisbury 2010
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Thanks to 9/11 and truckloads of homeland security money, the stain of those achievements is now flowing as swiftly and freely as streams of data on a vast fiber optic network.
Stephan Salisbury: Surveillance, America's Pastime Stephan Salisbury 2010
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Thanks to 9/11 and truckloads of homeland security money, the stain of those achievements is now flowing as swiftly and freely as streams of data on a vast fiber optic network.
Stephan Salisbury: Surveillance, America's Pastime Stephan Salisbury 2010
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On the other hand, the zen of life, of beauty and steady, small achievements, is a beautiful thing.
Kristine Kathryn Rusch » Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Goals and Dreams 2010
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