ACHIEVEMENTS Synonyms: 80 Similar and Opposite Words

achievements

noun

plural of achievement

as in accomplishments

a successful result brought about by hard work this improvement in your time for a 10K road race is quite an achievement!

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as in executions

the doing of an action what you're asking is the achievement of a miracle

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as in successes

the state of being actual or complete you should be proud of the achievement of your goals

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Recent Examples of achievements Two years later, the Panamanian government awarded him a medal for his baseball achievements, and in the 1930s, he was offered – but declined – the opportunity to coach Panama’s national team for the Central American Olympics. — Zachary Kranc, Sun Sentinel, 27 Oct. 2026 This year’s Praemium Imperiale laureates were announced on September 8, recognizing artists for their outstanding achievements and contributions to the arts. — Hikmat Mohammed, ARTnews.com, 27 Oct. 2026 Their achievements also had an impact farther north, sparking the Icelandic women’s strike on October 24, 1975. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Oct. 2026 At a time when public debt as a share of GDP has risen to its highest level since the pandemic, Lula cited his achievements in lowering poverty rates, as well as reducing unemployment, illiteracy, and deforestation to record lows. — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 26 Oct. 2026 The following decade saw the emergence of the Baby Ruth, Chuckles, Goldenberg's Peanut Chews, the Mounds bar, and the malty Milky Way bar, always a favorite of mine and the first of many signal achievements of the Mars family. — Jeffrey Steingarten, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2026 The strategy defines six goals that are intended to address each of the challenges alongside corresponding objectives to guide NASA’s achievements of the goals. — David Zamora, Space.com, 23 Oct. 2026 However, not all do these achievements carry the same evidence. — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2026 Patterson received several medals for his service and achievements, according to the Nellis Air Force Base Public Affairs, including the Air and Space Commendation Medal with three oak leaf clusters. — Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026

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Noun

That more than three hundred thousand packages are delivered somewhere in the world every minute of every day is a monument to his accomplishments.

— Marc Levinson, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2026
In her new role, Danielle will help celebrate her aunt's life and accomplishments while offering a personal perspective on the woman behind the music, according to a press release announcing the appointment.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026

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Noun

Public executions by stoning, burning or hanging were originally meant to show a wide audience the consequences of breaking the law for crimes ranging from adultery to robbery to murder.

— Dr. Michael Good, Hartford Courant, 22 Oct. 2026
Florida has carried out more than half of the 32 total executions in the country so far this year, including Reaves.

— Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 21 Oct. 2026

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These are as much a part of Casey’s legacy as the company’s successes, even if UPS never mentioned them publicly during his lifetime and does not acknowledge them in recounting its past today.

— Marc Levinson, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2026
The chief also shared the successes the department has had with the system and that Sterling Heights Police Department has no history of misuse of the camera system.

— Julia Avant, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of successes

Noun

Developers can now produce many implementations much faster, but the difficult work has not disappeared.

— Luis Aburto, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
The earbuds also support Dolby Atmos immersive audio, which is more subtle than some spatial audio implementations.

— Christian de Looper, PC Magazine, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of implementations

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Already offputting, Reid’s performance of Rapp’s dawning realizations — flipping from dismissive skepticism to feverish belief with little in between — grows less grounded by the minute.

— Alison Herman, Variety, 23 Oct. 2026
But beyond the self-indulgences, realizations about the nature of life and the rules of society emerge.

— Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of realizations

Noun

If everything else goes to plan, Tentsile will begin early fulfillment deliveries in May and standard fulfillments in August.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 25 Mar. 2026
Palestinians and Israeli Jews also came to regard the other side’s actions as fulfillments of their own national nightmares, ethnic cleansing for one and extermination for the other.

— Hussein Agha, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2025

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