Example Sentences

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The team's experiments showed that the gold-patterned structures substantially increased the amount of heat moving across the gap, achieving heat transfer rates up to four times greater than comparable systems lacking the engineered patterns.

From Science Daily • Jun. 8, 2026

For many Beijing students, the gaokao was still a step toward achieving their dream.

From Barron's • Jun. 7, 2026

We are so proud of him achieving his life's goal to serve in the Royal Navy as a Junglie Aircrewman and are grateful for the joy he brought into ours and Iona's lives.

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026

Supporters say the revival is about meeting the demand for electricity, especially from the booming artificial-intelligence sector, and it’s about achieving energy security through domestic resources and reshoring manufacturing.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026

His model was intended as a way of achieving that and, on its own terms, it failed.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin