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And even by mid-2024, the agency predicts that ridership will have attained just three-quarters of the early-2020 level, before the coronavirus’s impact.

From Washington Post • Mar. 9, 2022

Toby Alderweireld and Axel Witsel will both have turned 32 while Jan Vertonghen will have attained confirmed veteran status at 34.

From The Guardian • Mar. 18, 2020

We know by our nautical almanac that, at a certain hour on a certain day, the sun will have attained at Greenwich a certain altitude.

From In the Eastern Seas by Kingston, William Henry Giles

In the following August they will have attained their full size, and may be used immediately; or they may be taken up, spread to dry, tied in bunches, and housed, for future consumption.

From The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. by Burr, Fearing

Each of you will have attained your first rank.

From The Meadow-Brook Girls Under Canvas by Aldridge, Janet