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noun

accomplishment

the action of accomplishing something

In a sentence

Six example sentences with accomplishment, each labelled with its topic.

  • Winning the conference with three freshmen starting was an accomplishment nobody in the league had predicted in October.

    Basketball

  • Reaching the pass on foot was less an accomplishment than a lesson in how slowly thin air lets you move.

    Travel

  • Playing the whole suite from memory at fourteen is an accomplishment her teacher still mentions twenty years later.

    Music

  • Shipping the first version was an accomplishment in itself, since the founders had rewritten the code three times.

    Startups

  • Her first unassisted pull-up was a small accomplishment that took eight months of patient work on the bands.

    Fitness

  • Sequencing the whole human genome was an accomplishment that took thousands of researchers thirteen years and billions of dollars.

    Science

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