achievement implies hard-won success in the face of difficulty or opposition.
her achievements as a chemist
Example Sentences
The discovery of DNA was a major scientific achievement. It was a great achievement. Getting the project done on time was a real achievement.
Recent Examples on the WebProbably not… simply because spending a year on the Hot 100 is a very difficult achievement! Katie Atkinson, Billboard, 7 Sep. 2022 That is a significant achievement; more than 1,200 people – almost one-third of them children – have died since the monsoon began at the end of June. Hasan Ali, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Sep. 2022 Technically, the film is a striking achievement, with elegant, appropriately dark-tinged cinematography by Ari Wegner, who also shot The Power of the Dog last year. Stephen Farber, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2022 For Freud, the war presented a case study of how civilization, like sanity, was a tenuous achievement—a fragile, complex system that required ongoing maintenance, compromise, and care. Patrick Blanchfield, The New Republic, 1 Sep. 2022 The Furman decision was both a remarkable achievement for the NAACP lawyers and a disappointment for those seeking to abolish capital punishment in this country. Austin Sarat, The Conversation, 1 Sep. 2022 While his performance in iHeartLand is yet another innovative achievement in his career, Puth is not ready to stop there. Lizzie Hyman, Peoplemag, 26 Aug. 2022 This is a huge achievement, as human boots have not touched the Moon’s surface since the 1970s. Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 23 Aug. 2022 The grain agreement is a key achievement for the U.N. during the Ukraine war. Ann M. Simmons, WSJ, 20 Aug. 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
borrowed from Anglo-French achevement, from achever "to achieve" + -ment-ment