greatest accomplishment

collocation in English

meaningsofgreatandaccomplishment

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great
adjective
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/ɡreɪt/us
/ɡreɪt/
large in amount, size, ...
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accomplishment
noun
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/əˈkʌm.plɪʃ.mənt/us
/əˈkɑːm.plɪʃ.mənt/
something that is successful, or that is achieved after a lot of work ...
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(Definition ofgreatandaccomplishmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It is considered by many as the singlegreatestaccomplishmentin professional wrestling.
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Wegner considers hisgreatestaccomplishmentthe dissemination of his tennis teaching technology to coaches over the past 40 years.
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Perhaps hisgreatestaccomplishmentwas reorganizing the state's administrative structure, reducing the number of administrative agencies from 75 to 10.
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He cited passage of a large energy bill as hisgreatestaccomplishment.
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The program'sgreatestaccomplishmentto date occurred after the 20062007 school year.
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Looking back, she told interviewers that hergreatestaccomplishmentwas not her temperance efforts, but instead building fellowship among the world's women.
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West cited when she was 14 years old and starting a program to combat bullying as hergreatestaccomplishment.
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He said that hisgreatestaccomplishmentwas his very strong bond with our men and women in uniform.
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Hergreatestaccomplishmenton the political front was to manipulate rebel factions into opposing each other.
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Tawes would later remark that the educational strides under his administration should be regarded as thegreatestaccomplishment.
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Perhaps itsgreatestaccomplishmentwas connecting large audiences (sometimes in the thousands) with works which critics, music industry reps and radio people all considered too serious, complex, weird or difficult.
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He considered this legislation hisgreatestaccomplishment.
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Urtho considered the gryphons both his children and hisgreatestaccomplishment.
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It was one of the greatest accomplishments of the time.
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Although she competed in two national fastball titles, her greatest accomplishments were as a goalie in ice hockey.
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This position would bring him some of his greatest accomplishments and recognition.
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One of his greatest accomplishments was his imaginative use of gunpowder in many dangerous and unique ways.
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If you asked him, assuredly he would list his greatest accomplishments as the lives of his children and accomplishments of his students.
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Today, however, those early works are seen as his greatest accomplishments.
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He therefore devised a ruse where two peaches were presented, purportedly as a reward, to the three generals; the two with the greatest accomplishments would get a peach each.
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