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When researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology reviewed more than 300 AI initiatives, they found only 5% were achieving quantifiable value.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 8, 2025

It is, however, hindering their attacking play, with the amount of shots they are taking per game almost half of what they were achieving previously.

From BBC • Sep. 25, 2025

“It felt like we were achieving a nice meshing with him. Musically and in terms of the way we worked together, it was a good chemistry and suddenly it was gone full stop.”

From Seattle Times • Jun. 6, 2024

The irony of decolonization is that even as former European colonies were achieving formal political independence, millions of former colonized peoples were flocking to Europe for work.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

Meanwhile the Italian troops were achieving successes elsewhere.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War by Miller, Francis Trevelyan