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attained

[ uh-teynd ]

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adjective

reached or achieved, often after considerable time and effort:
Any country with a reactor and a fairly easily attained level of expertise can build an atomic bomb.
having reached a specified level of accomplishment; skilled or expert:
He was an eminent professor of religion and a highly attained mystic.

First recorded in 1590–1600; attain ( def ) + -ed ²( def ) for the adjective senses; attain ( def ) + -ed ¹( def ) for the verb sense

To Bartholdi, his statue meant a commemoration of Liberty attained.

Remember how Scott Brown attained wattage in 2009 by beating Democrat Martha Coakley in Massachusetts?

When Dyan Cannon and Grant Grant split, she attained a restraining order, so he rented another house a bit further down the road.

It attained its $2 million goal in less than ten hours, the most famous example of fans resurrecting a show in Hollywood history.

Now, at an age she considers her prime, she says has attained her goal.

He who has attained it grows giddy, and the fiercest winds are summoned to blow him from his eminence.

He had attained to position and wealth and, which successful men sometimes are not, was quite unspoiled.

In a paroxysm of rage and fear, he gave the final order, and the Well of Cawnpore thereby attained its ghastly immortality.

Gunn possessed a purple complexion which attained to full vigor of coloring in the nasal region.

After eighteen years of railway life, at the age of 34, I had attained the coveted position of a general manager.

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