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achieving

/əˈt͡ʃiːvɪŋ/ noun B1
  1. An achievement; the process of achieving something.

Plural achievings

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But the case is this:--we are not rich enough or grand enough for them; and she is the more anxious to get Miss Darcy for her brother, from the notion that when there has been _one_ inter-marriage, she may have less trouble in achieving a second; in which there is certainly some ingenuity, and I dare say it would succeed if Miss de Bourgh were out of the way.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 138 · B2
By the end of the decade, achieving a sub-four-minute mile had become a standard benchmark for dedicated runners worldwide.
Shattering the Impossible: The Four-Minute Mile, p. 1 · C1

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