How to Use attainment in a Sentence

attainment

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  • Her scientific attainments have made her quite well-known in the field of biology.
  • She values educational attainment above all else.
  • The goal needs to be attainment, or making sure students are at grade level.
    — Emily K. Coleman, Lake County News-Sun, 15 June 2018
  • Imagination was never high on their list of attainments or virtues.
    — Joseph Epstein, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2018
  • The attainment of a college degree is, to some extent, a function of broad socioeconomic patterns.
    — Jennifer Victor, Vox, 30 Oct. 2018
  • At the root of these differences in attainment rates are social and economic disparities that continue to benefit certain races over others.
    — Adam Harris, The Atlantic, 16 June 2018
  • The state does lag in STEM workers, and the state ranks 26th for educational attainment of its workforce.
    — Scott Cohn, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Wochit Most fourth-graders can't read well The state has faced struggles in educational attainment as well, lagging in key areas in the midst of shrinking resources for public schools.
    — Megan Janetsky, azcentral, 28 June 2018
  • The Eighth has two parts: a vision of heaven and then heaven’s attainment.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2020
  • Trump ran through some of the achievements of this year’s class, from football wins to attainment of a Rhodes scholarship by one.
    — Justin Sink, Bloomberg.com, 14 June 2020
  • The attainment of inner and outer peace is your supreme value.
    — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Five out of the nine are in the top ten lowest for rates of higher education attainment.
    — Hank Sanders, ABC News, 18 Aug. 2022
  • The degree attainment helps shed light on the reasons people choose to labor longer.
    — Michelle Cheng, Quartz at Work, 5 Sep. 2019
  • Duckett credits her rise through the ranks and attainment of success to her parents.
    — Essence, 10 July 2023
  • Wendell Hardin, the city’s ozone attainment program manager, said part of that is due to a cold front that was over the area during that time.
    — Elena Bruess, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Oct. 2021
  • Courtship is so easy, the attainment so easy, their bodies so fortunate.
    — Patricia Highsmith, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Some of you may even find that someone behind the scenes has been rooting for you and secretly clicks the pieces into place to guide you to the attainment of a goal close to your heart.
    — Kyle Thomas, Peoplemag, 12 May 2024
  • The past few years have seen a growing interest in raising the shui ping, or level of attainment, of the Chinese consumer.
    — Yiren Lu, Wired, 17 Aug. 2020
  • The existence of Ross’s book and others like it — and the brutal events that occasion them — suggest the attainment of that goal is still more than 20 years away.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2021
  • Mesa has one of the lowest rates of higher education attainment in the region.
    — Maritza Dominguez, The Arizona Republic, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Rather, it was based on wide-ranging surveys that happened to touch on both child savings and college attainment.
    — Josh Verges, Twin Cities, 22 Dec. 2019
  • If attainment is not achieved by August 2024, the city could be downgraded further.
    — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 22 Sep. 2022
  • At the same time, our incentive-and-reward system needs to shift from preparation to attainment.
    — Chester E. Finn Jr., National Review, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Arizona failed to meet the deadline to achieve attainment and will now have to prove that west Pinal County is reducing its PM-10 emissions by 5% every year.
    — The Arizona Republic, 17 Mar. 2023
  • For those of us who are ambitious, this can be devastating to goal attainment.
    — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 21 Dec. 2023
  • And daily life has its way of interfering with goal attainment.
    — Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Jan. 2022
  • As a result, Henderson said, GED attainment dropped in the following years.
    — Olivia Krauth, The Courier-Journal, 7 Jan. 2020
  • In the three counties where TCCC works, the racial gaps in educational attainment are already vast.
    — Nellie Peyton, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Sep. 2020
  • Butts County, outside of Atlanta, has the same low Black college attainment rate and even lower Black life expectancy, at 73.8.
    — Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Generalization became the primary attainment but at the loss of specializations that were in the sourced generative AI models.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024

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