achievements

noun

plural of achievement
1
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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2
as in executions
the doing of an action what you're asking is the achievement of a miracle

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3
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 China’s parade of tech achievements will pick up in the interim. — Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 6 July 2026 Ford said nothing about the day's politics or his own administration's achievements. — Susan Page, USA Today, 5 July 2026 Onboard narration adds context by sharing stories from the Gold Rush era and highlighting the engineering achievements behind the railway. — Taryn White, Travel + Leisure, 30 June 2026 These are some of man's most sorcery-like achievements, providing materials with excellent engineering properties. — New Atlas, 6 July 2026 Pfendler appears to have broken both the previous women's speed record as well as the men's speed record, according to records maintained by Ocean Rowing Society International, which adjudicates ocean-rowing achievements for Guinness World Records. — ABC News, 4 July 2026 Commercializing fusion research NIFS’ achievements in fusion research range from sustaining plasma for 3,268 seconds to reaching temperatures over 100 million degrees Celsius. — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 7 July 2026 The Purdue University Northwest spring 2026 Dean’s List recognizes 1,834 undergraduate students for their academic achievements, according to a release. — Post-Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026 Historically, restrictive policies like the 1924 Immigration Act harmed the economy and innovation, a lesson reinforced by immigrants' scientific achievements and Nobel Prize contributions. — Stuart Anderson, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for achievements
  1. accomplishments
  2. executions
  3. successes
  4. implementations
  5. realizations
  6. fulfillments
Noun
  • Recovery involves gathering vital information, documenting accomplishments, and focusing on networking and skill development, rather than internalizing it as personal failure.
    — Caroline Castrillon, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026
  • The nighttime event featured military bands and Air Force planes flying overhead, and a campaign-style speech by Trump attacking Democrats and praising his own accomplishments.
    — Josh Meyer, USA Today, 2 July 2026
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  • In Idaho, executions will be carried out at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution by three volunteer police marksmen whose identities will be kept confidential.
    — Jennifer Borresen, USA Today, 1 July 2026
  • What followed was the busiest period of executions in more than eight decades in a state that has long been a stronghold of capital punishment.
    — Pamela Colloff, ProPublica, 30 June 2026
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  • Smart textiles and wearables continue to generate a lot of interest and there is meaningful early-stage development work happening, but successes to date remain largely niche.
    — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 30 June 2026
  • The next step is turning battlefield successes into standardized systems that every brigade can field.
    — David Kirichenko, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
Definition of successes
Noun
  • Those implementations must treat policy design and technical design as equals.
    — Maghnus Mareneck, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • These implementations were also instrumental in immediately communicating some of the trends driving new takes on the high-end fragrance category.
    — Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 9 June 2026
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  • Each member derives her own realizations from this experience, with its dual crucibles of grindingly hard work and pop adulation.
    — Elizabeth Gulino, Allure, 25 June 2026
  • One of the most striking realizations is just how much this list of names cuts against the grain of the Pochettino’s regular squad selections over his one-and-a-half years in charge.
    — Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026
Definition of realizations
Noun
  • 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
Definition of fulfillments

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