achieved

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For a nation gripped with worry about its economic future, among the concrete things Obama achieved was an agreement out of the Group of 20 summit in London.

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  1. adjective Highly skilled or developed; accomplished: "The author . . . is not merely lucky, but an achieved and deserving fiction writer” (Wright Morris).

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  • This attempt to reverse it when the thing is practically achieved, that is wicked, an attempt to kill the spirit. —  The Tiger In The Smoke - Allingham, Margery - Albert Campion 15
  • Having led the 13 colonies to independence from the British Empire in 1783, following the course of a difficult eight-year struggle by those freedom-loving American colonists who followed him, Washington (who lived from 1732 to 1799) would most assuredly be appalled to see that the liberties achieved from the American Revolution are now being flagrantly defied by a number of figures who populate the upper ranks of the administration of Barack Obama.
  • He vividly realizes the benefit he hopes to get achieved, which is a positive and readily imaginable thing: he does not realize the diffused, invisible, and slowly accumulating effect wrought on the popular mind, and so does not believe in it; or, if he admits it, thinks it beneath consideration. —  The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV
  • Indeed, it is clear that Gauguin and Van Gogh would not have come near achieving what they did achieve--achieved, mind you, as genuine painters--had they not been amongst the first to realize and make use of that bewildering revelation which is the art of Cézanne Of that art I am not here to speak; I am concerned only with its influence. —  Since Cézanne
  • Has forgiveness been, in fact, achieved--or salvation from sin? —  The Jesus of History
 

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